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Richard Shindell & Antje Duvekot

Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell's songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society's fringes.

Shindell is a master builder of songs" (Boston Globe) and "a master of subtle narrative" (Wall Street Journal).

Occasionally an artist has a night that makes even skeptics think, 'OK, maybe he is the best.' Richard Shindell achieved this on Thursday at the Bottom Line. His set list highlighted only strengths, his voice never wavered and his band flawlessly accentuated his songs. Like two other "best" singer-songwriters, Bruce Springsteen and Lucinda Williams, he dwells on big, often difficult moments in the lives of ordinary people."(New York Times)

Born in Heidelberg and living in the U.S. since age 13, Antje Duvekot is one of the brightest lights in the fertile Boston singer-songwriter scene. She's won the Triple Crown of songwriting contests: Grand prize in the John Lennon songwriting competition, the Kerrville Best New Folk Award and a Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act. The Boston Globe says her "provocative, dark-eyed ballads are becoming the talk of the folk world. Duvekot has gotten hotter, faster than any local songwriter in recent memory." Former Rolling Stone editor Dave Marsh says "Antje is the whole package...I've had this reaction once in the past ten years, and that was the first time I heard Patty Griffin." Dylan, Springsteen and Sting producer Neils Dorfman says "When I first heard Antje I knew I was witnessing something very special....Her songs are stunning paintings of color and shade, and always generate the heat and light that real art should."