Anke Summerhill
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Anke Summerhill

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2009 | INDIE

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States | INDIE
Established on Jan, 2009
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"CD Review"

author: Martin Renzhoffer, Salt Lake Tribune
ANKE SUMMERHILL, "Shine on Through": Grade A
On "Shine on Through," Anke Summerhill's second album, the elegant Utah singer and songwriter continues her maturation as a recording artist. Summerhill surrounds herself with many of Salt Lake City's finest musicians, including Kate MacLeod, who also took the vital role of producer. The arrangements -- and Summerhill's voice -- are stunning without overpowering the simple beauty of her lyrics. "Windowsills" and "If a Day Was an Island" are standouts on an album full of standouts. - Salt Lake Tribune


"CD Review"

author: Martin Renzhoffer, Salt Lake Tribune
ANKE SUMMERHILL, "Shine on Through": Grade A
On "Shine on Through," Anke Summerhill's second album, the elegant Utah singer and songwriter continues her maturation as a recording artist. Summerhill surrounds herself with many of Salt Lake City's finest musicians, including Kate MacLeod, who also took the vital role of producer. The arrangements -- and Summerhill's voice -- are stunning without overpowering the simple beauty of her lyrics. "Windowsills" and "If a Day Was an Island" are standouts on an album full of standouts. - Salt Lake Tribune


"CD Review"

Consistently expansive and deeply compassionate, Anke's new CD "Shine on Through" has coaxed the most timid parts of my soul out into the sunlight.
This is music I trust.
- The After Dinner Story


"CD Review"

Consistently expansive and deeply compassionate, Anke's new CD "Shine on Through" has coaxed the most timid parts of my soul out into the sunlight.
This is music I trust.
- The After Dinner Story


"CD Review"

author: Jayne Darling
I have really come to enjoy "Shine on Through". There's a deeper harmony with this collection of songs. The words and music create a beautifully woven fabric that just seem to embrace you. I'll enjoy this one for a long time to come! - www.cdbaby.com


"CD Review"

author: Jayne Darling
I have really come to enjoy "Shine on Through". There's a deeper harmony with this collection of songs. The words and music create a beautifully woven fabric that just seem to embrace you. I'll enjoy this one for a long time to come! - www.cdbaby.com


"Let the secret out!"

author: huck
In a world of confusion and worry, somehow a spirit seems to arise that proclaims beauty and the transcendence of those human traits that comfort and inspire. I love Anke Summerhill. I love her soul. I love her warm shower of poetry that cleans my cynical hard head for a moment, long enough to believe that there is still hope.
- www.cdbaby.com


"Let the secret out!"

author: huck
In a world of confusion and worry, somehow a spirit seems to arise that proclaims beauty and the transcendence of those human traits that comfort and inspire. I love Anke Summerhill. I love her soul. I love her warm shower of poetry that cleans my cynical hard head for a moment, long enough to believe that there is still hope.
- www.cdbaby.com


"CD Review"

author: Lin Ostler
"Anke Summerhill's new release, shine on through, is replete with richness, insight, warmth and a tribute to our fragile but triumphant spirit. The music is as soothing as basking on a sun-warmed boulder while the iridescent mist of a waterfall settles over us. We don't feel inundated by its power, simply blessed.

Richly expressed in its wistful quality are a longing, compassion and exploration of relationships. Composed primarily of love songs, with a hearty dose of self-introspection, the work includes a worthy nod to a diversity of styles. Also present, though not as prominently as in her previous CD, The Roots Run Deep, is the sensuous engagement with landscape as comfort, as a bridge or sacred ground where we coincide despite our differences.


Anke has brought back several musicians from Roots, with some added to boot. Most notably is the piano virtuosity of local [ Utah ]performing artist Steve Keen, on piano and accordion. His lilting artistry on "If a Day Was An Island," takes me back to the early 70's when Steve graciously swapped piano lessons for macrobiotic cooking sessions.

The album's first cut features John Mock's penny whistle, which functions not so much an instrument of the British Isles but for its plaintive "Wild Bird's" voice. The rich percussion of earlier works is replaced by drum work of John Gardner, the house drummer for the Grand Ole Opry. Harmonies of voices familiar to local acoustophiles (did I make that up?) recorded here then engineered in Nashville, are so well mixed, the voices merge, often almost indistinguishably--not unlike the intimacy between two people that the songs seem to yearn for.

Matt Flinner's banjo & mandolin move jauntily, sometimes evocatively behind many of the melodies, especially emphasizing the playfulness behind the "New Year's Resolution." Here a certain poignancy sometimes suggested in the songs is replaced by a bold declaration: "I don't want to hear about it. Go and tell somebody else." The work resounds with smiles of an artist enjoying herself, the musicians, even the listeners.

Still, compassion and depth reign throughout the songs. Whether expressed in a bluesy way in the title cut or with a jazzy, saxophone-infused questioning in the mysterious "Big House," or while "waiting for wisdom and grace... to scatter the darkness," Anke's lovely talent clearly shines through." ~ Lin Ostler, Catalyst Magazine
- Catalyst Magazine


"CD Review"

author: Lin Ostler
"Anke Summerhill's new release, shine on through, is replete with richness, insight, warmth and a tribute to our fragile but triumphant spirit. The music is as soothing as basking on a sun-warmed boulder while the iridescent mist of a waterfall settles over us. We don't feel inundated by its power, simply blessed.

Richly expressed in its wistful quality are a longing, compassion and exploration of relationships. Composed primarily of love songs, with a hearty dose of self-introspection, the work includes a worthy nod to a diversity of styles. Also present, though not as prominently as in her previous CD, The Roots Run Deep, is the sensuous engagement with landscape as comfort, as a bridge or sacred ground where we coincide despite our differences.


Anke has brought back several musicians from Roots, with some added to boot. Most notably is the piano virtuosity of local [ Utah ]performing artist Steve Keen, on piano and accordion. His lilting artistry on "If a Day Was An Island," takes me back to the early 70's when Steve graciously swapped piano lessons for macrobiotic cooking sessions.

The album's first cut features John Mock's penny whistle, which functions not so much an instrument of the British Isles but for its plaintive "Wild Bird's" voice. The rich percussion of earlier works is replaced by drum work of John Gardner, the house drummer for the Grand Ole Opry. Harmonies of voices familiar to local acoustophiles (did I make that up?) recorded here then engineered in Nashville, are so well mixed, the voices merge, often almost indistinguishably--not unlike the intimacy between two people that the songs seem to yearn for.

Matt Flinner's banjo & mandolin move jauntily, sometimes evocatively behind many of the melodies, especially emphasizing the playfulness behind the "New Year's Resolution." Here a certain poignancy sometimes suggested in the songs is replaced by a bold declaration: "I don't want to hear about it. Go and tell somebody else." The work resounds with smiles of an artist enjoying herself, the musicians, even the listeners.

Still, compassion and depth reign throughout the songs. Whether expressed in a bluesy way in the title cut or with a jazzy, saxophone-infused questioning in the mysterious "Big House," or while "waiting for wisdom and grace... to scatter the darkness," Anke's lovely talent clearly shines through." ~ Lin Ostler, Catalyst Magazine
- Catalyst Magazine


Discography

***VIDEO*** available here:

http://www.youtube.com/ankesummerhill

Full Length Projects of Original Music:

SHINE ON THROUGH ~ 2004 ~ Sky & Earth Music

THE ROOTS RUN DEEP ~ 1999 ~ Sky & Earth Music/ISG Records

Contributions to Compilation Projects:

Recorded one song: "Miner's Lullaby"
for The Long Memory Project:
A tribute recording of the songs of Utah Phillips.
Released in 2011.

SINGER SONGWRITER HEAVEN - The Songs of Kevin Faherty ~ 2009

ACOUSTIC SKY ~ 2008 ~ Led Sky Records

BEFORE THEIR TIME, Vol II ~ 2002
Memorial Songs and Music,
National Compilation CD for the Benefit of "Hospice VNH ( VT/NH ), Youth Suicide Prevention Association, the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.".

RIVER OF SONG ~2000
An Anthology of River Songs,
National Compilation CD for the Benefit of "American Rivers".

SLICKROCK & SAGEBRUSH ~ 2000
Songs for Utah Wilderness.
Utah Compilation CD for the Benefit of the "Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance".

FOLK UTAH ~ 1993
Utah Singer-Songwriter Sampler


PERFORMANCE HISTORY INCLUDES:

Caffe Lena, NY

Club Passim, MA

The Freight & Salvage, CA

Moab Folk Festival, UT

Sundance Film Festival Cafe, UT

Wodstock Festival, NY
aka Yasgur's Farm Reunion, 2000

Tucson Folk Festival, AZ

New Folk Finalist Showcase
Kerrville Folk Festival, 1996 & 1999

Utah Arts Festival, UT

Brown Bag Concert Series, UT

Heart & Soul Community Concerts, UT

Voted Best Folk/Acoustic Artist
2000 SLCity Weekly Readers' Poll UT

Utah Performing Arts Tour
Selected for the 2001/2002 Utah Artist Roster

Solstice Festival, Santa Cruz, CA

Deer Valley Folk and Bluegrass Festival, UT

KRCL Showcase, 1998

Private Parties & Weddings


Has performed with or opened for:
Dar Williams, Kate MacLeod, Doug Wintch, Duncan Phillips,
Cosy Sheridan, Irene Kelley,
Ellis Paul, Michael Veitch,
Caroline Aiken,
Darryl Purpose, and
The Five Chinese Brothers,
among others.

Photos

Bio

***VIDEO*** available here:
http://www.youtube.com/ankesummerhill

An Introduction

Doug Wintch & Anke Summerhill:

Anke Summerhill and songwriter Doug Wintch form a duo whose sound includes soulful vocals, harmonies, guitars, bass, harmonica & mandolin. Anke & Doug feature their award winning original songs, spanning the range from quirky love songs to rock nroll to ballads.

Doug's songs are filled with delightful wordplay and gentle self-deprecating humor that never fails to charm. You'll be humming his songs for days.

A native of Germany, Anke arrived in Utah via Canada decades ago and fell in love with, as her song says, "Canyons so Deep, you can See the Stars at Noon." I think you'll agree, she is now a Utah treasure.

Together, long-time friends, Doug Wintch & Anke Summerhill make their lively performances fun and refreshing, combining songs that touch the heart and tickle the funny bone.

Along with their duo tours, Anke Summerhill & Doug Wintch have recently toured with Duncan Phillips & the Utah Phillips Tribute Tour.

Website links:
www.DougWintch.net
www.AnkeSummerhill.com

Video Samples are available at: www.YouTube.com/AnkeSummerhill

Upcoming & Recent Performances

Caffe Lena, NY w/Duncan Phillips & Utah Phillips Tribute Tour

Club Passim, MA w/Duncan Phillips & Utah Phillips Tribute

SUNDANCE Film Festival Cafe w/Doug Wintch

Intermountain Acoustic Music Association w/Doug Wintch

Art of the Song ~ Albuquerque, NM
Radio Interview w/Duncan Phillips & the Utah Phillips Tribute ~ this interview also included Kate MacLeod, Doug Wintch & Anke Summerhill

KAFM Radio Room, CO ~ Concert w/Doug Wintch

Moab Folk Camp, UT ~ Beginning Guitar Instructor

Brewin Bistro ~ SLCC UT TV Channel w/Doug Wintch

Utah Arts Festival ~ Trio w/Kate MacLeod & Harold Carr

Biography

Instrumentation

Anke Summerhill: lead & harmony vocal, guitar & bass.
Doug Wintch: lead vocal, guitar, harmonica & mandolin.
Jamie Dalton: drums.
Kate MacLeod: fiddle & vocal.
Ken Sager: guitar, mandolin, dobro, vocal.
Harold Carr: acoustic upright bass.

Lineup & instrumentation varies:
Solo, Duo, Trio or Quartet

Along with their duo tours, Anke Summerhill & Doug Wintch have recently toured with Duncan Phillips

Band Members