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'Songs hold up': Three Dog Night's Hutton talks Cape Cod show, new album and his unusual past + 4 more concerts to see
- Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night talks of the band and storied early days. More shows: Dar Williams, Maria Muldaur, Michelle Willson, George Gritzbach.
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Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky to perform Dec. 4
Lucy Kaplansky, whose musical career has spanned some 40 years, will be performing live at Northwest Park in Windsor, on Dec. 4. Kaplansky began singing in Chicago as a teenager, has released eight albums, and notable credits include performing with artists such as Bryan Ferry, Suzanne Vega, and Shawn Colvin, and teamed with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form the group, Cry Cry Cry. In ...
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Artist Brenda Jones spotlights gender roles, pigeonholed femininity in sculptural work at Artworks Loveland exhibit
Feb. 18—In 1993, folk singer Dar Williams released "When I Was a Boy" — a track that recounts her freewheeling days of childhood when she adventured with wild abandon, climbed, explored the woods and returned home with a "grass-stained shirt and dusty knees." On the tune, she sings, "I was a kid that you would like/ Just a small boy on her bike/ Riding topless, yeah, I never cared who saw /My ...
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Pete Seeger’s Legacy Celebrated by Arlo Guthrie & More at Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Benefit
At a time when many musicians seek to link their art to activism and climate change is the most urgent issue of our time, Pete Seeger’s legacy is more relevant than ever.
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What a musician's tour through hundreds of small towns taught her about America
Public spaces and a shared unique history is the glue that binds small towns together, singer Dar Williams told CNBC.
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Dar Williams on the Rise of Large Towns and Small Cities
The singer-songwriter Dar Williams’ music is a revelation—The New Yorker has described her as "one of America’s very best singer-songwriters”—and so, it turns out, is her writing about cities. In her fantastic new book, What I Found in a Thousand Towns, Williams provides an insightful flâneuse’s take on what makes for a thriving community (full disclosure: I liked the book so much I blurbed it). She draws on her travels to cities and towns across America to set out the ingredients of a successfu
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Track of the Day: ‘The Christians and the Pagans’ by Dar Williams
I tend to favor depressing Christmas songs, but reader Adam Feiges probably has a better idea during this already depressing post-election season: How about Christmas tunes, specifically ones that work that holiday magic of bringing people together? I know that they can be clichéd, but I always find myself looking forward to the first time each season that I hear Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Winter, especially here in Iowa, can be depressing, and a little yule-time cheer can re
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Hear It First: Dar Williams Premieres New Album, ‘Emerald’
Few modern folk artists have enjoyed as prolific a career as Dar Williams, who has been consistently turning out some of America’s best songwriting since the ‘90s. Her latest album,Emerald, is her first new album in three years, slated for release May 5 and crowd funded through Pledge Music. The album features such luminous guests such as Jill Sobule, Lucy Wainwright, and Jim Lauderdale, and is filled with Williams’s signature introspective narratives. Yahoo Music is pleased to preview the entir
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