Neeka (Ilse Goovaerts) is a singer songwriter from Belgium. She has made five albums in English and is about to release a new one in Dutch. Her music is somewhere in between pop and folk music. In the beginning she listened mainly to American and Canadian singer songwriters (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Suzanne Vega…). In 1992 she saw Pentangle at the Dranouter Folk Festival and was blown away. Neeka was nominated and invited to Belgium’s premier radio station to perform for ‘Around the world in 80 plays’ at the same session as Frank vander Linden.