Dar Williams

Dar Williams ( born April 19, 1967 in Mount Kisco, New York as Dorothy Snowden Williams) is an American singer- songwriter.

Their musical style is usually as Folk respectively Folkpop or more recently ( now almost always occurring with Band) also known as Americana. Dar Williams is also active as an author or a writer.

Biography

Dar is actually a nickname, which should be as a result of an incorrect spelling of the first part of her first name Dorothy, created by one of her two older sisters, Meredith and Julie reportedly. The three girls grew up under the care of their designated by the puppy as "free thinking and loving, but not religious" parents Gray Williams ( Yale graduate, a writer and editor with a specialty in medicine) and Marian Ferry ( a family planning activist ) in Chappaqua in upstate New York. Dar was early on by her family be encouraged to write songs. She had begun at the age of nine, playing the guitar and wrote an eleven year old as her first song. Nevertheless, she became interested in her youth more for Acting, drama and the stage and planned her first career in theater direction.

After her studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) with Bachelor Of Arts degree in Theatre Studies and Religion Williams moved in 1990 to Boston, Massachusetts, and there was relatively fast stage manager of the Opera Company of Boston. In her spare time she wrote new songs, recorded demos and worked through constant singing lessons on to their comprehensive three -octave voice. Your vocal coach Jeannie Diva also ensure that the young lady presented their first live audience, which she found in bars, clubs, pubs and cafes made ​​. But as they barely brought her stage fright under control, Williams teamed up extremely hard at her first concert ( event) s - on top of that was the city of Boston folk music scene as quite intimidating and new, young talent to non- straight frank. In 1993, she returned to Boston again the back and moved to Northampton, Massachusetts.

Had After Williams in 1990 ( I Have No History ) and 1991 ( All My Heroes Are Dead ) recorded demo tapes and it made ​​compact cassettes, for their fans today would grab very deep into the pockets (if they are because only offered by its few owners would ... ), she published in 1993 on their own label, Burning Field Music their official debut album, The Honesty Room. It was expelled shortly afterwards by Waterbug Records and re-released in 1995 by Razor & Tie with two additional songs.

A push for further music career was his friendship with Joan Baez, the self- recorded some of Williams' songs, later with Dar together live performances (on the Baez Ring Them Bells live CD they sing together the Williams song You 're aging Well ) and completed tours in the U.S. and Europe, paving the way for her own popularity. Other notable collaborations reach Dar Williams with Richard Thompson, Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco, Pete Seeger, the Indigo Girls and the Canadian Sarah McLachlan, for which they in 1997 and 1998 occurred at the Lilith Fair the years.

Since May 4, 2002 Dar Williams is married to the carpenter Michael Robinson, whom she had met fleetingly during the period of their studies and taken after the release of their CD The Green World by accident again. Their son Stephen Gray Robinson came on 24 April 2004 to the world. The family of three currently lives in Rhinebeck on the Hudson River in upstate New York and Williams has on top of that an apartment in New York City.

Miscellaneous

Dar Williams has also been involved as a writer / author a name. The self affected by lactose intolerance allergic to an ingredient recorded as co-author for the restaurant and Buying The Tofu Tollbooth (1998) co-responsible. With Amalee (2004), she wrote a novella families from the perspective of an eleven year old, with her single father, and four " stepfathers " the ( his mates in chill ) must grow up. A continuation of Amalee, entitled Lights, Camera, Amalee should be published in July 2006.

In April and May 2006 Dar Williams toured with her ​​band in Europe, although they only gigs in the Netherlands ( Utrecht, Venlo ) and in the UK and Ireland denied because they do not yet investigated, for example, Germany always opportunities to perform.

Peace activity

Dar Williams wrote the song I Had No Right by an action of the plow blade movement ( Daniel Berrigan and his brother Philip Berrigan ).

Discography

• The Honesty Room (first published in 1993, republished 1995)
• Mortal City ( 1996)
• End Of The Summer ( 1997)
• Cry Cry Cry (1998; than band called Cry Cry Cry, along with Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky )
• The Green World ( 2000)
• Out There Live (2001)
• The Beauty Of The Rain (2003)
• My Better Self (2005)
• Promised Land (2008)
• In the Time of Gods (2012 )