Over the Rhine Comes to Lincoln Theater Tonight

Over the Rhine, the Cincinnati-based, husband-and-wife team of Karin Bergquist (vocals, acoustic guitar, tenor guitar) and Linford Detweiler (vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards), has been a prolific, music-making, folk-pop duo for more than two decades. Their large and remarkably accomplished body of work is both introspective and expansive, earning them a passionate fan base and considerable critical acclaim. Over the Rhine is now touring in support of their new, two-CD set, Meet Me at the Edge of the World.

CAPA presents Over the Rhine with special guest Lily & Madeleine at the Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.) on tonight, December 12, at 8 pm. Tickets are $30 at the CAPA Ticket Center (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000.

Native Ohioans Detweiler and Bergquist launched Over the Rhine as a quartet in the spring of 1989, naming the ensemble after the historic, bohemian Cincinnati neighborhood Over-the-Rhine where they lived and first wrote and recorded together. Their early demos and performances quickly struck a chord with listeners, and they had am established local following by the time they launched their recording career with a pair of well-received independently released albums, Till We Have Faces (1991) and Patience (1992).

Over the next two decades, Over the Rhine continued to build a musically and emotionally potent catalogue, encompassing the studio albums Eve (1994), Good Dog Bad Dog (1996), Films For Radio (2001), Ohio (2003), Drunkard's Prayer (2005), The Trumpet Child (2007), and The Long Surrender (2011); the holiday-themed The Darkest Night of the Year (1996) and Snow Angels (2006); the live Changes Come (2004); and a series of limited-edition CDs featuring live, rare, and unreleased material.

The fierce independent streak that has fueled Over the Rhine from the start asserted itself when Bergquist and Detweiler decided to release 2007's The Trumpet Child on their own Great Speckled Dog label (named after the couple's Great Dane, Elroy).