Bio

Antje Duvekot Bio

"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." - former Rolling Stone music editor and Springsteen biographer, Dave Marsh. 

Antje Duvekot is an award-winning singer-songwriter and crafter of intricate, closely observed songs. She has crisscrossed the globe performing at clubs and festivals including the Newport Folk Fest, Philadelphia, Celtic Connections, Tonder Festival and TEDMED. Her songs have been recorded by Solas, Mindy Smith and others. She has had feature pieces in the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, CNN and NPR. In 2007, The Bank of America featured Antje's song "Merry Go Round" in a national TV advertising campaign seen by millions, including a Super Bowl audience. More recently, the Boston Goethe Institute commissioned Antje to write its 2021 Earth Day song. Some of her songwriting awards include the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition and the Boston Music Award for “Outstanding Folk Act”.  

Since 2020, Antje has also been working as a stop motion animator and has created music videos for Toad The Wet Sprocket, Dar Williams, Dave Koz, Eliza Gilkyson and herself, which have already garnered over 200K views collectively. In addition to her artistic pursuits, Antje leads a yearly fan volunteer trip to Guatemala.