I saw Antje play two wonderful shows at Club Passim in Cambridge Saturday night (with PattyPals® Nicole, Karen and Gillian who was visiting from Minneapolis) and recorded them both with Antje's permission. The ventilation system at Passim is a little noisy, but aside from that the recordings both turned out pretty nicely! During the second show I was sitting close enough to Antje that my mics actually picked up some of her vocal and guitar directly. Her new songs are all pretty awesome, I can't wait for the next album (which she says will be "30% happier" than Big Dream Boulevard).

I've uploaded the shows to my website as two zipped files of hi-fi mp3s.

http://kbergend.tripod.com/antje2008-04-05early.zip

http://kbergend.tripod.com/antje2008-04-05late.zip

Enjoy!

Antje Duvekot
April 5, 2008
Club Passim
Cambridge, MA

Antje Duvekot: vocals, guitar, harmonica
Sean Staples: mandolin, vocals
Duke Levine: guitars

Early Show (7:00)

01 Never Turn Around
02 Long Way
03 (meeting Joan Baez)
04 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
05 South
06 Alabama Fields
07 (church signs)
08 Pearls
09 Coney Island
10 Merry Go Round
11 Diamond On Your Hand
12 The Ballad of Penny Evans
13 Dandelion
14 Famous Blue Raincoat
15 Hero
16 Anna

Late Show (10:00)

01 Diamond On Your Hand
02 (bent note hijacking)
03 Long Way
04 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
05 (Alaska)
06 Alabama Fields
07 Never Turn Around
08 Reasonland
09 Dandelion
10 Pearls
11 Coney Island
12 Christian Boys
13 The Ballad of Penny Evans
14 Hold On
15 Hero
16 Famous Blue Raincoat
17 Merry Go Round
18 Jerusalem

Early: Church CA-11 cards > Church ST-9000 preamp > Marantz PMD620 recorder (line in) @24/44.1
Late: Church CA-11 cards > Marantz PMD620 recorder (mic in) @24/44.1
Both: Card reader > CEP 2.0/Ozone 3 (soft limiting on applause, +3dB gain, fades, MBIT+ dither to 16 bits) > CD Wave (tracking) > Apple mp3 encoder (192kbs VBR)

Hi Keith,

I was at the concert on Saturday night at club passim, and wishing I had somehow been able to record Antje's beautiful performance, particularly that version of Long Way. On a whim, I googled "Antje Duvekot Long Way," and came across your entry on overtherhine. I registered solely for the purpose of saying Thanks to you. I now have a recording of probably my favorte concert.

Thanks again,

Jon

Gosh, it's posts like this that really make being a taper worthwhile! (that, and being able to listen to a great show again while driving home)

I'm very glad you found the show Jon, enjoy! And consider checking out Over the Rhine, many of Antje's fans also love their music.

Mucho thankyou for these Keith. I am inspired to see Antje at a house concert in Boulder in June. Woo Hoo. T xo