vandaveer is the alt-folk song-singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by dc-by-way-of-kentucky tunesmith mark charles heidinger.
the son of a preacher, whose father was a gambler, whose father was both a judge and u.s. congressman, mark charles one day found himself in possession of a golden pocket watch owned, wound, and regularly counseled by each in this paternal line. on the backside of said watch was a family name engraved and passed down for a century or more. The name was vandaveer.
vandaveer’s debut album, grace & speed, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring of 2007. the press responded heartily, with the washington post saying vandaveer “revives the earnestness of the pre-psychedelic 60’s,” and xm cafe calling him “this generation’s nick drake.”
touring continually on both sides of the atlantic ever since, vandaveer has played 250+ shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling artists including bon iver, vetiver, alela diane, alejandro escovedo, vashti bunyan, bill callahan, fleet foxes, and the like.
-from thesixtyone.com
