Heartwood & CPW Productions Present: Over The Rhine, with Support from Ricky Kendall

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When you listen to Over the Rhine, the supremely talented musical couple comprised of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, you quickly fall under the spell of Karin’s timeless voice “which has the power to stop the world in its tracks” (Performing Songwriter). But then the songs start hitting you. Paste magazine writes, “Over the Rhine creates true confessional masterpieces that know neither border nor boundary” and included Bergquist and Detweiler in their list of 100 Best Living Songwriters. Rolling Stone recently wrote, Over the Rhine is a band “with no sign of fatigue, whose moment has finally arrived.” That’s quite a sentiment for a band celebrating 30 years of writing, recording, and life on the road. But as Karin Bergquist states, “There is still so much music left to be made.” Love & Revelation, the new album from Over the Rhine, is a record for right now. The songs have been rigorously road tested and burst at the seams with loss, lament, and resilient hope. The LA Times writes, “The Ohio based husband and wife duo has long been making soul-nourishing music, and the richness only deepens.”

Ricky Kendall has been a working Gainesville-based musician for over a decade. With a love for his city and the people in it, he attempts to capture peace, joy and hope in the midst of sorrow by writing songs earnestly and sharing them openly.  Ricky sings and plays an array of soothing songs at bedsides of patients as well as anywhere else songs are needed at Shands.

Listen to a sample of Over The Rhine’s musical magic here: