Works Progress Administration with Antje Duvekot

Works Progress Administration takes its name from FDR’s 1939 New Deal initiative, which put millions to work making buildings, bridges, theater, art and music. The original WPA was rooted in the values of community and creativity, and helped to keep the fire of human dignity burning through the darkest years of the Great Imposters. For tonight's show, the new music supergroup WPA will perform as a quintet, featuring founding members Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek), and Luke Bulla (Jerry Douglas Band, Ricky Skaggs, Lyle Lovett) with Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing) and Jerry Roe on drums. WPA was born out of the musical community surrounding the legendary LA club, Largo. The members of the band had known and admired each other for years, and found themselves with a strong batch of unrecorded songs, a little down time, and a collective feeling that it might be a good idea to put something on tape. The fruits of their labors, wpa, was released Sept 15 on Red Distribution. In this time when the collective spirit is once again in need, WPA looks forward to serving you in your community.

Opener Antje Duvekot (pronounced: Aunt-yuh Doo-va-kot) is one of the brightest singer-songwriters to rise out of Boston's competitive acoustic music scene, and has recently released her second studio album, The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer.

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