NEW GLOUCESTER — The Village Coffee House will open its 2011 season with Boston singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot, whose debut album, “Big Dream Boulevard,” catapulted her to national attention when the Boston Globe voted it the No. 1 folk album of 2006.

The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 8.

This year, Duvekot’s latest release, “The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer,” was voted the No. 1 album of the year by WUMB, the radio station at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Well known to the Boston music audience, Duvekot is also gaining a following in Maine. She has performed four times on WCSH-TV’s “207” show; opened for John Gorka in Kennebunk; and toured with the Winter Bloom Group, which performed in Rockland at the Strand in December 2009.

Duvekot has won some coveted songwriting awards, including the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the prestigious, Kerrville (Texas) Best New Folk Award and the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act.

In December of 2007, Bank of America featured Duvekot’s song “Merry Go Round” in a national TV advertising campaign. A fast growing fan base and a track record of sold-out shows are a testament to the singer-songwriter’s growing popularity.

The Village Coffeehouse is in the vestry of the New Gloucester Congregational Church, 19 Gloucester Hill Road.