Antje returns to the Harmony on the Green stage after accompanying Catie Curtis at her show here back in May. The audience was delighted by her beautiful harmonies on Catie’s songs, as well as her sharing a few of her own songs with us. We are thrilled to welcome her back!
Antje 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. Two of her albums found her working with Richard Shindell as producer, as well as other “folk royalty” such as John Gorka, Lucy Kaplancky and Mark Erelli.
Antje 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 festivals in Scotland and Denmark.
The Bank of America featured Antje’s song “Merry Go Round” in a national TV advertising campaign, including a Super Bowl audience. Neil Dorfsman, producer for Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Sting says, “When I first heard Antje I knew I was witnessing something very special. She creates an entire, detailed world in verse, and takes you there with beautiful and understated melody. Her songs are stunning paintings of color and shade and always generate the heat and light that real art should. In an unpoetic and ‘in your face’ world, she is lyrical and subtle”
Antje has played the TEDMED conference in San Diego. CNN said of the experience, “Then, this morning, the tone of the conference turned from intellectual to deeply emotional when Antje Duvekot played her guitar and sang about her grandmother’s descent into Alzheimer’s disease. Duvekot’s song was all too relatable for those of us who have watched loved ones slip away. ‘And Anna tries to form a thought / But at the end she’s forgotten where she started from / There’s something she would like to say / But the words in her head seem to have got away’ she sang.”
Antje’s most recent album, New Wild West was released in September, 2023.
Opening for Antje will be Eva Gertz. Eva is an eclectic artist of many mediums, born and raised in Melrose, MA where she started piano lessons at a young age. After attending Berklee College of Music (class of 2015), she spent six years developing her multi-faceted music career in NYC. This led her to arrange for Broadway and assist top-rank composers, perform as a dueling pianist on cruise ships, and self produce her original singer-songwriter releases along with ultra-creative music videos which share an uplifting message of self-love.
She currently lives in Somerville and teaches arranging at Berklee among many other musical jobs and projects. Her appreciation for the local arts community that has supported her from the beginning continues to grow immensely. You can learn more about her at her website https://www.evagertz.com/
Tickets available at https://hancockchurch.breezechms.com/form/17550915758430471852
Harmony on the Green at Hancock United Church of Christ, is an accessible venue with parking along Mass. Avenue, as well as in our back parking lot.
From our front entrance, there is an elevator to bring you to Clark Hall. Our back parking lot has accessible parking and a chair lift up to Clark Hall. We have single occupancy wheelchair accessible bathrooms.
at Harmony on the Green March 2, 202
Cliff Eberhardt
Saturday Sep 30 2023
Tix $23 Members, $25 Non-Member
Doors open at 6:30p, Show starts at 7:00p – 9:15p
South Shore Folk Music Club (SSFMC)
First Parish Duxbury
842 Tremont St (Rte 3A)
Duxbury MA
Cliff’s dad introduced him to the guitar when he was 7 and he quickly taught himself to play. He cut his teeth listening to James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, and Mississippi John Hurt at local clubs — but also Cole Porter, the Gershwins, and Rodgers and Hart.
Cliff moved to New York in 1978 – because the clubs were great, the Bitter End, the Speakeasy, Kenny’s Castaway, Folk City and the company amazing, John Gorka, Suzanne Vega, Lucy Kaplansky, Julie Gold, Steve Forbert, Christine Lavin, and Shawn Colvin. Between long hours as a taxi driver, Cliff played guitar on the road with Richie Havens, Melanie and sang jingles for Coke, Miller Beer and Chevrolet, “The Heartbeat of America” campaign.
Cliff has produced an incredible number of acclaimed albums, collaborated with Jazz, Folk, and Country legends, written original songs for a new production of “The Taming of the Shrew” for Folger Theatre and Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, reunited with old songwriting pals, John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Cheryl Wheeler, Lucy Kaplansky and Patty Larkin to tour nationally again as On A Winter’s Night and much, much more!.
Since the pandemic, he’s out on the road again and not to be missed! Right at the Club! Get your tickets, and Come on Down!
I hope everyone had a good summer. We’re back!
Now that it is ‘fall-ish’ another music event is planned for our 45th season at the South Shore Folk Music Club (SSFMC).
The first Coffeehouse is Fri Sep 22 2023
Doors open at 630p
Show starts at 7p, goes till 915p
First Parish Duxbury
842 Tremont St (Rte 3A)
Duxbury MA
Coffeehouse Feature: Fred Meltzer
Fred Meltzer has been performing and recording originals, covers and tribute music for over 40 years. His band Free Range has featured at SSFMC in the past. Fred has played his silly and thoughtful originals for the past several years and his project, Waxy Shellac and The Tasteless Apples, is currently recording their inaugural album “Shelf Life” at Ultrasound Productions in Hanover MA. Looks for it soon on line and in person with a booklet illustrating how all the decades of hits were inspired! Maybe Fred will be inspired to preview a couple at our first coffeehouse of the season!
Opener Fran Araujo and Friends:
Fran Araujo is a musician who has been performing for about 12 years. Her musical roots begin with her paternal grandmother in Ireland. She was influenced in childhood by her parents’ Mitch Miller records, and then was enchanted with the folk music of the 60s’s, especially with the close harmony of popular groups of the time. She appreciates and enjoys performing old time and bluegrass. Fran takes great pleasure in singing and playing with others and believes music is deeply healing.
We also hope you’ll share your Talent at the OPEN MIC!
Our beloved Woody Guthrie tribute show is back – after a 5-year hiatus! The life of Woody is presented through his own songs and stories, performed by talented FSSGB cast members.
This year’s show is dedicated to the memory of Ellen Schmidt, the long-time organizer of this show, and Richard Taylor, a long-time FSSGB member and BFG cast member who passed away unexpectedly in 2022. This show will also bring back some long lost Woody songs that were done in older shows, dating back to the 1970s.
Admission is $10 for all. Refreshments will be available. Please join us!
Check the website, www.fssgb.org, or email info@fssgb.org, if you have any questions.
NOTE: time and location have changed since original announcement!
Roslindale, MA (Address will be provided when you make your reservation.)
Reservations are required: send email to HouseConcerts@fssgb.org. $20 at the door (cash) – $5 for students.
If you’ve been around the folk scene, you couldn’t miss seeing Mike. Tall, ginger beard, and always around where the music is. He’s been on the scene for many many years, listening to the fine details of what makes this genre of music so special to the soul, so able to make us laugh and cry and think. And lucky for us all, he got serious about having fun at it.
Less a singer-songwriter than a singer-songfinder, Mike takes great delight in discovering the little-known hidden gems, polishing them with his own distinctive style, and bringing them to the light of day where they sparkle. He will shift from beautifully contemplative, to uproariously funny, to instrumentally brilliant, to powerfully emotional in the space of a few minutes. Equally at home in the contemporary and traditional camps of the Folk world, he is a fine musician and storyteller. His prime instrument is the guitar, upon which he shines with intricate fingerstyle arrangements of anything from Tin Pan Alley tunes of the ’20s to fiddle tunes to his own music. He also plays concertina, piano, banjo, or sings acapella. The man will capture your attention, and then your heart.
Not only a performer, Mike is involved in presenting folk music as well. He is one of the prime movers of The Folk Project, New Jersey’s oldest and strongest folk music organization. For over two decades he has been chairman of that organization’s Minstrel Coffeehouse, one of the longest lived and most respected folk venues in the country.
Check the website, www.fssgb.org, or email info@fssgb.org, if you have any questions.
