Antje Duvekot and Goodnight Moonshine

Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of contemporary folk music with Antje Duvekot and Goodnight Moonshine (Molly Venter and Eben Pariser).

Antje 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. They are the keys to the powerful, even revolutionary, empathy that informs everything she writes. 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.

Guitar and vocal duo Goodnight Moonshine combines the evocative voice and songwriting of Molly Venter with Eben Pariser’s adventurous guitar playing to create folk music with a depth of improvisation and tonal subtlety. The two guitars/two voices format allows Molly and Eben to focus entirely on each other’s gifts, and enter a hypnotic trance, a cycle of responsive vocal inspiration and guitar improvisation that deepens throughout their concerts. A couple both on and off the stage, they integrate their singular talents in a format that is both genre-less and grounded in commonness. Molly’s career highlights include Tønder Festival in Denmark and Kate Wolf Fest in California performances, and multiple placements on television and film. Starting as a blues guitarist in his teens, Eben has since performed with the band Roosevelt Dime, and with Red Molly, doubling as their musical director. Together as Goodnight Moonshine, they have recorded two albums.