Dar Williams News

Along with the Christmas trees hawked on street corners and vacant lots, decorations on main drags, competing versions of "The Nutcracker," one thing that's come to be expected each holiday season is a post-Christmas show at Southpaw from Dar Williams.

So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able And where does magic come from? I think magic's in the learning Cause now when Christians sit with Pagans Only pumpkin pies are burning.

This moving song is a must-hear for any practicing pagan with loved ones who celebrate Christmas.

"Notes on Paper," the debut CD from Williamsburg songwriter Nicole Belanus, offers more than quick, loose sketches of her musical soul.

People don't really like the Atlanta-based pop-folk trio Girlyman. Truly, people don't like the band that has opened for such folk icons as the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams, and guest-starred on comedian Margaret Cho's upcoming album Guitarded .

Dar Williams 8pm, $33-$35. Sellersville Theater. The folkie scene sometimes seems like a gated community where artists find stultifying acceptance dulling their creative edge until they're unsuitable for anyone else.

Dar Williams has been engaging audiences with her musical artistry since the early 1990s when she rose from the Northeast coffeehouse circuit to the national spotlight.

Tickets for two upcoming holiday shows at Mayo Civic Center go on sale this weekend.

When Dar Williams steps onto the Discovery Theatre stage on Saturday night, it will mark 15 years that Whistling Swan Productions has presented nationally known folk, jazz and alternative musicians to Anchorage fans.

This moment was bound to come. In 1995, Joan Baez turned a young Boston songwriter named Dar Williams into a national star by recording her ode to women who hold fast to their best idea of themselves and refuse to be defined by anyone else.

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Dar Williams brings her sweet voice, her love of community gardens and a 1960s folk-rock sensibility to Blueberry Hill next Tuesday night.

It's winter in Argentina , so Richard Shindell has picked a good time to leave the nation he and his family have called home for the past nine years to pay another visit to Vermont.

It's winter in Argentina , so Richard Shindell has picked a good time to leave the nation he and his family have called home for the past nine years to pay another visit to Vermont.

It was a busy morning at the Dar Williams household when she picked up the phone to do an interview recently.

If there is any true balance in this life, surely it can be found between the guitar and the garden.

Singer-songwriter Dar Williams will kick off a new concert series at Stone Wall Gardens in Knoxville on Saturday, July 25.

Returning from a three year hiatus, Dar Williams' latest offers nothing new, which will please her legion of fans.

With interest in Canadians at a seasonal high here in Pittsburgh, WYEP has perhaps picked the perfect time to present the Sam Roberts Band as headliners at the station's annual free summer music festival.

Dar Williams will headline the scaled-down 2009 Boston Folk Music Festival at UMass Boston on Sept.