Pondering some kind of central theme that links the 10 songs on I’ll Meet You Here, her first album release in six years, Dar Williams finally settled on “acceptance.” Not in a passive sense, but an acknowledgement that being true […]
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I had the opportunity to spend a fantastic four days holed up in a hotel with several thousand musicians and music lovers at the Folk Alliance International Annual conference in Kansas City. My wife and I were two of the […]
This week we take in some of the outstanding pictures our ND photographers have posted during the past couple of weeks. It’s a nice selection of established folks, including some I have not seen in awhile, with some fresh newer […]
Emerald, a green gem, and now a sparkling Dar Williams song collection. Williams journeyed, far and wide, across her native land in creating the eleven song, self-produced Emerald, her ninth disc to feature original material (*). The contributing musicians are best […]
James Keelaghan has been called “Canada’s finest songwriter” by the esteemed music critic, Dave Marsh. However, it’s not just Marsh who feels this way — just ask Keelaghan’s fans, who treasure his song introductions as much as his songs. How many […]
Dar Williams could be the most normal singer-songwriter to emerge from folk music in the last decade. That normality has worked in her favor: She stands out like a relatively uninjured thumb from the dogmatically angry and/or ethereally unthinking women, […]
Dar Williams has never been afraid to see herself as a work in progress, and, as usual, it makes for fairly good art. Her acknowledgement of an ego apart from the Earth Mother most other female folkies bow to allows […]
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