Interviewer: "So abbo, how would you describe your music?"

abbo: "Music to keep you company when you want to be alone."

Alternative folk/country singer songwriter born Simon van Baalen in 1973 in a remote fishing village in Cornwall (UK) to Dutch and Irish parents, the youngest of four siblings later took his stepfathers surname Abbondandolo culminating in the lasting nick name "abbo."

After spending the last few years traveling with his guitar and touring his solo projects from New York's Greenwich Village, heading east playing in Brighton, London, France, Beirut, Qatar, Dubai, Manila, Boracay Island (Philippines) and ending some years later performing in Sydney and Bondi Beach, abbo felt it was time to develop some of his many musical ideas gathered from being on the road and to stop somewhere long enough to record again.

Settling for now (2012) in Dubai, abbo is hard at work at what he says is his best work to date.

You can find abbo on facebook here

Or Twitter here

Please contact any of the following email addresses for any further info or general inquiries regards booking abbo as a performer or contact for press interviews or appearences.

info@abbomusic.com

bookings@abbomusic.com

management@abbomusic.com

In this ever evolving world that is the music business I love so much I also work as a performance coach and songwriting coach for you budding artists and songwiters out there. Collaborations can and often do come from this which enriches others as well as my own creative output.  

For the past few years I have also worked as a freelance photographer (my other great passion) to ensure I constantly remain creative.

Previous to all the music and art that I am lucky enough to have as my working life now, I worked as an aircraft engineer for over 10 years, but eventually took the difficult step to transform my world into a creative one and now engineering is my much loved hobby while I work hard at my music, writing and photography full time.

I love what I do, so if you feel you may benefit from a pair of "Outside Ears" (as I call it) and some coaching to help with your song writing, or would like to advance with your performance skills then feel free to drop me a line at any of the contact details at the bottom of this page I would be excited to think I could help you advance in your own desires towards a creative career.

Please feel free to contact me regards bookings for gigs, or to inquire about how I may be able to help you in any aspect of your music, be it songwriting, performance coaching or even learning the guitar.

If you have questions I may be able to answer, that may be all you need.

Speak soon and thank you for your time,

abbo.