PUTNEY \u2014 Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present contemporary folk singer\/songwriters Antje Duvekot and Seth Glier on Saturday, Dec. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Together,\u00a0Duvekot and Glier create an evening of luminous storytelling – songs of heart, conscience, and connection that remind us how art can illuminate both the inner and outer landscapes of our lives.<\/p>\n
Duvekot is a German-born, American-raised singer\/songwriter whose songs have been critically praised for their hard-won wisdom, dark-eyed realism, and street-smart romanticism, according to a release from Next Stage. Her bicultural upbringing and relative newness to English have helped shape her unique way with a song, giving her an original poetic palette. She has won some of the top songwriting awards including the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the Kerrville Folk Festival Best New Folk Award, and the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act. Since the release of her debut studio CD \u201cBig Dream Boulevard,\u201d which was voted #1 Folk Release of 2006 by the Boston Globe and was named to the Top 10 Releases of the Year by National Public Radio’s Folk Alley,\u00a0Duvekot has been touring extensively, criss-crossing the US and Europe.<\/p>\n
Five-time Independent Music Award winner and Grammy-nominated singer\/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Seth Glier is said to bring a visionary voice to the modern folk landscape. He has worked as a cultural diplomat for the US State Department and collaborated with musicians in Ukraine, Mongolia, China, and Mexico. Flier has shared the bill with a diverse list of artists including Ronnie Spector, James Taylor, Ani DiFranco, and Glen Campbell, and has recorded with the likes of Richard Shindell, Dar Williams, and Cyndi Lauper. With a commitment to using songwriting as a tool for positive change, he has written with the students in Parkland, Fla. for the \u201cParkland Project,\u201d co-written with soldiers at Walter Reed, and is an advocate for autism awareness citing his autistic brother Jamie as his greatest non-musical-musical influence.<\/p>\n