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Mark Charles Heidinger is the alt-folk tunesmith behind the globetrotting project that is Vandaveer. Born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky and now living in Washington, DC, Heidinger is joined by the extraordinary Rose Guerin in Vandaveer, who have recently announced the release of their third full-length album, Dig Down Deep, on April 26.

Vandaveer is the alt-folk project of DC-by-way-of-Kentucky songwriter Mark Charles Heidinger. The son of a preacher, whose father was a gambler, whose father was both judge and US Congressman, Heidinger 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 the watch was a family name engraved, passed down for more than a century like the timepiece that followed. The name was Vandaveer. His sophomore effort, Divide and Conquer, touches upon similar themes found in his debut album, Grace and Speed, winding themes of love and death, malice and goodwill, despair and perseverance into short vignettes.