Amanda Palmer

In 2008,Amanda released Who Killed AmandaPalmer, her debut solo album which was produced by Ben Folds and was accompanied with the release of a fine art photography book on which she collaborated with esteemed author Neil Gaiman (whom Palmer also recently married). Amanda subsequently went on an international tour, highlights of which included three critically-hailed performances with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and a critically-acclaimed performance at the 2009 Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival.

She subsequently took on the role of the MC in a sold out run of the musical Cabaret with Cambridge’s own American Repertory Theater in 2010. In the same year, she was named Artist of the Year 2010 by the Boston Music Awards. Amanda also tends a widely-read blog and twitter feed and was dubbed ‘The Social Media Queen of Rock-N-Roll’ by the Huffington Post.