Line Up:

Maaike Girardin | Vocals, Author
Dutch-Canadian singer-songwriter with a dreamy timbre and poetic lyrics

Alberto Ammendolia | Guitar
Sicilian guitarist, arranger, sound designer

Alba Vivaldi Huuse | Violin
Norwegian-Spanish violinist, emotional and cinematic melodies

AL ALMA is an international folk-pop trio that combines a taste for travel, storytelling and sonic intimacy. The voice of Maaike Girardin, a Dutch-Canadian singer-songwriter with a nomadic sensibility, intertwines with the rhythmic and dreamy guitars of Alberto Ammendolia (Sicily) and the vibrant and cinematic melodies of Alba Vivaldi Huuse’s violin (Norway-Spain).

Since 2024, the group has been performing under the name *AL ALMA* – “To the soul” in Spanish – offering an immersive live experience, made of evocative soundscapes and lyrics that tell emotions while traveling.

Their music evokes the desire to get in a car without knowing where you will go.

For those who love Lizzy McAlpine, Maro, Phoebe Bridgers.

MAAIKE GIRARDIN

Maaike Girardin is a Dutch Canadian singer and songwriter who travels the world with her music. Her signature voice, full of feminine sensitivity, discusses hidden thoughts, confessions and broken hearts, which she conveys with charm to her listener as an expert by experience.
Maaike invites you to relive her physical and emotional journeys, but this time through her poetic lyrics and folky guitar playing. In recent years, Maaike has played on stages all over the world, including in Israel, Vietnam and Australia. She collaborated with many musicians of different nationalities and genres. Performances at the Swedish embassy in Hanoi and the Blue Note Jazz Club in Milan are moments she can look back on with pride.
She has something personal. She introduces you to her world. She is naked and shares her emotions. She shares who she really is. It doesn’t sound like anyone else. She is only Maaike Girardin. This is what an artist does. – Dariana Koumanova Conductor of the Sanremo Festival Orchestra.
Maaike Girardin has won multiple awards at the Artist Voice Music conference in Italy. In the summer of 2019 she returned to the Netherlands to devote herself full-time to her music in combination with her Songwriting studies at the Rock Academy. Maaike is currently working on her debut album with Italian guitarist Alberto Ammendolia, which will be released in 2022. This year she is in the national final of Tour Music Fest (Rome, Italy) for the second time. She also played at the Circolo Festival, KRANG festival in the Netherlands, and Wonderest festival in Hungary this year. Her ambition is to touch as many souls as possible with her music and to relive the connection between people.