Concert Review: Antje Duvekot At The Meeting House

Intimate, confessional songwriting at its best

Author’s Note: This review was written for and published at The Buffalo Hive on September 7, 2024 where I serve as Managing Editor.

Antje Duvekot performing September 6, 2024 at the The Village Meeting House, Williamsville, New York.

I’m a sports fan but I never paid much attention to soccer. Baseball was always my favorite sport and for years I privately regarded other athletic pursuits as occasionally diverting, but largely irrelevant sideshows.

When I finally went to a soccer game and was thrilled by its grace and speed I realized my foolish reluctance was rooted in an ignorant tribalism, the view that my love for baseball would somehow be diluted by enjoying another game. Quite silly of me, really.

That said, musical tribalism is alive and well. Many rock lovers have never cast a shadow at a Buffalo Philharmonic performance, and few members of Buffalo’s hardcore scene will likely attend one of the performances at the Buffalo Friends of Folk Music at Williamsville’s Village Meeting Hou…