“To witness a performance by Anthony da Costa is akin to being invited into a friend’s living room. He’ll pull out a guitar, then casually say, ‘I wrote this song because I was thinking of…’, then proceed to share a work of art.” –Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live

Anthony da Costa is a 17-year-old, performing songwriter from Pleasantville, New York. In the first two months of 2008, he: released his sixth record, Typical American Tragedy; opened for Livingston Taylor and Susan Werner; was nominated as Folk Alliance Emerging Artist of the Year; and recorded his seventh record, Bad Nights, Better Days—a duo project with his duo partner, Abbie Gardner of Red Molly—in three days. 2007 wasn’t half-bad either. Anthony was the youngest winner ever of the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk and Falcon Ridge’s Emerging Artist Competitions. He also showcased at the Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival in Nashville and was a Mountain Stage New Song Contest Finalist. Anthony’s writing and performing draw from a deep well of rich musical influences—from Bob Dylan and Dan Bern, to Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, to Ryan Adams and Johnny Cash. A prolific songwriter and self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he is a strict adherent to Zimmerman’s Theory of the Never-Ending Tour, playing perpetually at festivals, theaters, clubs and coffee houses throughout the Northeast and beyond. Anthony’s upcoming performances range from the Tarrytown Music Hall in New York, where he’ll open for Dan Bern, to the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, where he’ll play the main stage, to Denmark, where he’ll make his European debut at the Tonder Festival.