Dar Williams

Date Friday 3 Oct 2025

Doors 7:00 pm Show starts: 7:30 pm

Advance price £21.50

Door price £23.50

THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH
ALL TICKETS HOLDERS WILL BE CONTACTED AND FULL REFUNDS ISSUED

A message from Dar:

“I am crushed to report that I have some medical issues that require specific dates for me to be home. Everything was full steam ahead until one required date showed up in the middle of the UK tour. I am so sorry. I love everything about touring in the UK. Tea kettles in the hotel rooms, the countryside by train, and most of all the wonderful audiences and concert presenters I have met. I am so sorry and will miss you all. I hope you will have me back next year!”

Dar Williams was always in the right place at the right time for the success she’s had over a 25+-year career. She rose out of the vibrant mid-90s Boston scene, inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets, and folk artists, like Patty Griffith, Melissa Ferrick, the Throwing Muses, Vance Gilbert, and Jonathan Brooke. After a year of touring non-stop with her first album, The Honesty Room, in 1994, she was invited by Joan Baez to tour in Europe and The United States.

“Good and bad things happen, and it’s not necessarily a reward or indictment. I’ve just got to meet it.” Williams observes. “Like, I’m bringing my whole life to this moment; it will surprise me, challenge me, show me where I was wrong, even make a fool out of me, but my job is to show up and not take adversity personally. Real happiness doesn’t have to feel like Snoopy dancing with Woodstock; it can just be knowing you have the resilience to meet whatever comes to you. I will call that a good life.”

Dar Williams’ lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity.  Williams strongly believes that all of us possess our own power and ability to achieve, and she rejects the exceptionalism that encourages us to “admire that yonder star,” while making us feel small and insignificant; unworthy of shining on our own but hoping to catch enough distant light to inspire some tiny accomplishment. Williams has always been very interested in how to control our future and this album has to do with the fact that at some point, you just can’t.

SUPPORT

Massachusetts-based “writer song-singer” Heather Maloney provides support for this tour