Tipiko Den Haag

is a collective of enthusiasts who share a love for traditional music of Aruba, Bonaire en Curaçao and who always find new ways to perform that music combined with theatre, storytelling and film. The collective, formed in 2009, is being lead by Julian Starink (1981), one of the founders and also the programme maker of A Free Mind, Caribbean Style! Julian, also a writer of short stories and theatre plays, performs on several string instruments within Tipiko Den Haag. Two further participants in this programme are singer Edmundu Adelaida (Curaçao, 1958) who's neverending and passionate love for music goes back to his childhood years, and singer and guitarist Alfonso Birginia (Curaçao, 1944), a member of beat group The Prevenders during the sixties and nowadays takes every opportunity to play music within Trio Los Tropicales and Tipiko Den Haag.