Dorothy Snowden "Dar" Williams was born on on April 19,1967 and is an American pop folk singer-songwriter from Mount Kisco, New York.
16 Facts About Dar Williams
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Dar Williams is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with many artists, such as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, the Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.
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Dar Williams was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and grew up in Chappaqua with two older sisters, Meredith and Julie.
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Dar Williams began playing the guitar at age of nine and wrote her first song two years later.
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Dar Williams moved to Boston in 1990 to explore further a career in theater.
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Dar Williams worked for a year as stage manager of the Opera Company of Boston, but on the side began to write songs, record demo tapes, and take voice lessons.
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In 1990, Dar Williams recorded her first album, I Have No History, produced by Jeannie Deva and engineered by Rob Lehmann at Oak Grove Studios in Malden, Massachusetts.
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One year later in 1991, Dar Williams recorded her second album, All My Heroes Are Dead, most of which was recorded at Wellspring Sound in Newton, MA.
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Dar Williams's growing popularity has since relied heavily on community coffeehouses, public radio, and an extensive fan base on the Internet.
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Dar Williams recorded her first full album, The Honesty Room, under her own label, Burning Field Music.
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Dar Williams soon secured a licensing-and-distribution deal for Burning Field with Razor and Tie, and in 1995 reissued the album on that label, with two re-recorded bonus tracks.
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Dar Williams founded the Snowden Environmental Trust and has been a part of many benefit concerts.
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Dar Williams performed in a show at Alcatraz with Baez and the Indigo Girls, to benefit the prisoner-rights group Bread and Roses.
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In 1998 Dar Williams co-authored a second edition with Elizabeth Zipern.
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Recurrent themes in Dar Williams' songs include religion, adolescence, gender issues, anti-commercialism, misunderstood relationships, loss, humor, and geography.
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Dar Williams has visited the college several times to perform at concerts.