PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present award-winning contemporary folk singer/songwriter Antje Duvekot plus Hayley Reardon and Hannah Hoffman at Next Stage on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.
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.
Her bicultural upbringing and relative newness to English have helped shape her unique way with a song, giving her a startlingly original poetic palette.
She has won 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.
Over the past five years, Reardon has shared the stage with the likes of Tom Rush, Peter Yarrow, Buskin & Batteau, Christine Lavin, Lori McKenna, Mark Erelli, and Catie Curtis.
In 2012, The Boston Globe Magazine named Hayley a Bostonian of the Year for both her music and her work to pair it with a message of teen empowerment, calling her “a confident, radiant teenage singer/songwriter who is helping to pen the next chapter of the Boston folk scene.” That same year, she appeared in the award-winning documentary “For The Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival,” which won Best Documentary at the 2012 Boston International Film Fest.
Hoffman is a soulful soprano who delivers an emotional depth to her sound reminiscent of an early Tori Amos, Jewel and Regina Spektor. She is a versatile performer who engages her audience with dynamic performances not only of her own composing but an eclectic mix of standards she commands as her own.