Antje Duvekot

Antje Duvekot ( ; born 1974) is a German-American singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She holds three top songwriting awards including the Kerrville New Folk Competition's Best New Folk Award, Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act, and Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Biography

Born in Heidelberg, West Germany, Duvekot moved to Delaware, United States at the age of 13. Duvekot writes songs that are often profound and personal, and she frequently records and performs with little accompaniment besides her acoustic guitar.

She began recording music on her own at the age of cassette tapes for her friends. At 18 she won the first open mic competition she entered, at the Sam Adams Brewpub in Philadelphia. Within a year, she had recorded a number of songs on a borrowed 4-Track tape machine, and released a self-produced full-length cassette entitled ''Waterstains"'' which she sold at gigs in and around Newark, Delaware, where she had attended the University of Delaware.

In 2000, her song "Soma" won the grand prize in the rock category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Duvekot often tours with Ellis Paul, who sings on her first studio album, ''Big Dream Boulevard''. ''Big Dream Boulevard'' was produced by Séamus Egan of the Irish-American band Solas. Solas has previously recorded five of Duvekot's songs: "Black Annis," "The Poisonjester's Mask," "Erin," "Reasonland," and "Merry Go Round."

Duvekot's first two albums, ''Little Peppermints'' and ''Boys, Flowers, Miles'', are based on recordings of live performances, although some tracks include studio overdubs as well. Both albums include spoken anecdotes from Duvekot.

In 2007, Duvekot's song "Merry-Go-Round" was featured a large-scale marketing campaign for Bank of America, including a high-profile spot during Super Bowl XLI. Duvekot performed for the first time as a professional in Europe, in August 2007, as part of Denmark's Tonder Festival, accompanied by Karan Casey, John Doyle, Liz Carroll, Julie Fowlis, and Mick McAuley.

Duvekot released her second studio CD, ''The Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer'', on Black Wolf Records in March 2009. The album, which features 11 tracks, most of them originals, was produced by singer-songwriter Richard Shindell.

Duvekot's next release, ''Toward the Thunder'', was her fourth full-length studio album.

Discography

Solo albums

* ''Little Peppermints'' (2002)
* ''Boys, Flowers, Miles'' (2005)
* ''Big Dream Boulevard'' (Black Wolf Records, 2006)
* ''Snapshots'' (Black Wolf Records, 2008)
* ''The Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer'' (Black Wolf Records, 2009)
* ''Antje Duvekot LIVE from all over the place'' (2011)
* ''New Siberia'' (2012)
* ''Toward The Thunder'' (2016)
* ''New Wild West'' (2023)

Collaborative albums

* ''Winterbloom: Winter Traditions'' (2009)
(with Anne Heaton, Meg Hutchinson, and Natalia Zukerman)

* 'SOLAS: Reunion – A Decade of SOLAS' (2006)

References

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1974 births
American women singer-songwriters
American folk singers
Emigrants from West Germany to the United States
Living people
Singers from Delaware
Singers from Boston
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People from Newark, Delaware
Musicians from Heidelberg
University of Delaware alumni
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Singer-songwriters from Massachusetts
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20th-century American women singers
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