Piece Description

Dar Williams pours a lot of her own quirks, embarrassments, and lessons-learned-the-hard-way into her music. One of those lessons involved a snide remark from an ex-boyfriend. It came at the end of their relationship -- a time she compares to "the last days of the dinosaurs before the meteor hit." But it gave her the freedom let her songs ramble wildly ... so long as they kept a sense of purpose. In this feature, Williams describes her evolving approach to songwriting, and makes the case for finding musical connections between Cajun cooking and Amish quilts. As in all the pieces in David Schulman's CPB-supported Musicians in their own words series, the story is told through a mix of the performer's voice and music. There is no reporter's voice heard, allowing the feature to be seamlessly incorporated into station news, talk, or music programming. Scripts for intro and outro are attached, and may be edited at will. This piece works well pegged to local performances. Williams's tour schedule includes: 10/02 Pawling, NY, Towne Crier Cafe   10/03 New York, Battery Park   10/22 Ithaca, NY, Ithaca High School   10/23 Clinton, NY, Hamilton College   11/04 Charlottesville, VA Starr Hill   11/05 Easton, MD, Avalon Theatre   11/06  Harrisburg, PA Whitaker Center   11/19 Morristown, NJ Community Theatre 11/21 Stamford, CT Palace Theatre   12/02 Somerville, MA Somerville Theatre   12/03 New York, Bowery Ballroom   12/04 Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre