Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer is a performer, director, composer and musician who is best known for her role as front woman and keyboardist for the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret band The Dresden Dolls.

In 2008, she released Who Killed Amanda Palmer, 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. After touring the world endlessly (live highlights include three critically-hailed performances with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, residency at the Famous Spiegeltent at Edinburgh, and a critically acclaimed performance at the 2009 Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival), Amanda took on the role of the MC in a sold out run of the Kander & Ebb musical 'Cabaret' with the legendary American Repertory Theater in the Fall of 2010. As the undisputed champion artist of the emerging music business scene, 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.

'…Dark and jubilant…' -New York Times

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