ANTJE DUVEKOT AND MAIA SHARP - LIVE at The Fallout Shelter

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Published on February 9, 2024 2:42:17 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDMT0dLaS64

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ANTJE DUVEKOT\nFormer Rolling Stone music editor Dave Marsh says: "This is a brilliant, brilliant album. I have had this reaction once in the last 10 years and that was the first time I heard Patty Griffin."\n\nAntje Duvekot has solidified her reputation as one of Boston's top singer songwriters with "Big Dream Boulevard" her debut studio release and "the Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer" and "New Siberia" her follow-up albums. The debut CD was produced by Seamus Egan, founder of the Irish super group, SOLAS and the project was released on songwriter Ellis Paul's label and quickly attracted international attention for Antje. It was voted "#1 Folk Release of 2006" by the Boston Globe and was named to the "Top10 Releases of the Year" by National Public Radio's, Folk Alley. Her follow up albums "the Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer" and "New Siberia" were produced by Richard Shindell and along side with Richard feature other "folk royalty" such as John Gorka, Lucy Kaplancky and Mark Erelli.\n\n\n\n\n"What a blessing to have worked with someone as talented as Antje. With a voice like hers, and songs as good as these, a producer (especially a first-time producer!) just tries to get out of the way, to do no harm, and to let the artist speak for herself." - Richard Shindell\n\n"Duvekot has gotten hotter, faster than any local songwriter in recent memory. Her songs feel at once fresh faced and firmly rooted, driven by the whispery sensuality of her voice. She believes in the redemptive power of the shared secret; and is utterly unafraid to mine the darkest corners of her life for songs that turn fear into resilience and isolation into community". The Boston Globe\n\nAntje has won some of the top songwriting awards including the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the prestigious, Kerrville (TX) "Best New Folk Award" and in one of the nation's top music markets, she won the Boston Music Award for "Outstanding Folk Act", three of the top prizes in the singer songwriter world.\n\nAntje has extensive touring experience, criss-crossing the US and Europe many times. She is a compelling live performer and has been invited to play some of the top festivals including The Newport Folk Festival as well as the Mountain Stage, Philadelphia and Kerrville Festivals. Internationally, she's headlined the The Celtic Connections Festival in Scotland and the Tonder Festival in Denmark.\n\n\nMAIA SHARP\nBorn in California’s Central Valley, Sharp and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was five. Following in the footsteps of her Grammy-winning songwriter father, Randy Sharp (Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris etc.), she studied music theory at California State University Northridge, but was originally a saxophonist. Her focus as a songwriter and then performer – initially influenced by Raitt, Ricky Lee Jones, Paul Simon, and her dad – emerged only at the turn of her 20s.\n\n“Once I started doing that, it just changed my chemistry,” Sharp recalled. “What drove me to get on a stage and sing is my love of songwriting more than anything else. And I knew it was a long shot that I would find a home for every song with another artist so I became one of those artists.”\n\n\n\n\nWithin two years of her debut show, Sharp almost simultaneously landed her first cut for a major artist (on Cher’s 1995 album It’s a Man’s World) and signed recording and publishing deals with industry legend Miles Copeland. Soon she was being jetted off to songwriting workshops in a French castle alongside the likes of Carole King, Jon Bon Jovi, The Bangles, and The Go-Gos.\n\nIt was a crash course in songcraft that’s helped Sharp carve out an enduring career as both a solo artist and songwriter, as well as a producer for Garfunkel, Edwin McCain and others. She’s toured extensively in the US and UK, including appearances on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” CBS Early Morning, and the TODAY Show, while also an NYU adjunct professor and a longtime participant in Songwriting with Soldiers’ writing retreats for veterans.\n\nWith an intriguingly androgynous voice and rare medley of influences, Sharp has happily confounded pigeonholing throughout her career. She’s been labelled country, alt-country, roots, and pop – sometimes on the same release. The 10-track Reckless Thoughts, its title a reference to scenarios that spun in Sharp’s head as she pondered a new life in Nashville, is a songs-before-style caress of what’s now broadly termed Americana. It’s a record with an honest heart and refreshingly appreciative aura, conveyed through Sharp’s sublime timbre and innate, cultured melodic instincts; an audio exhalation after surviving the transition into single life in the natural songwriter’s habitat of Nashville.\n\n“I never thought I would leave California,” she said. “Once I did, I had a feeling it would be easier to build a community in Nashville, but I had no…

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