Dayna Kurtz & Robert Maché (USA) ^USA

After singing her hit Love gets in the way at Barend & Van Dorp, her album Postcards From Downtown was a huge success in the Netherlands. She performed with big stars, such as Elvis Costello, BB King and Norah Jones, and is often compared to Nina Simone, Marianne Faithfull and Jeff Buckley.

Dayna Kurtz is an American singer-songwriter who has been touring intensively for years and really gives it her all on stage. Volkskrant wrote about it: "The most beautiful performance comes from American singer-songwriter Dayna Kurtz. Her voice is heavy and a bit dark, sometimes hard and mean. Sparsely accompanied by her own acoustic guitar and the shrill Telecaster of sidekick Robert Maché, Kurtz manages to turn her soul grinder It's How You Hold Me into a downright tearjerker. Unparalleled".