Thank you Chris Chin for taking down the set list and thank you to the
Rubin Museum for honoring Dar Williams. The Museum is dedicated to the
art of the Himalayan civilization.
it actually is an old department store, Barneys women that has been
remodeled. Somehow i thought the show was 8pm so i stolled down the
block with the merch at 645 to find out the show was at 7pm.... Merch
was set up and Chris and I headed downstairs to find a sparce
excellent 250 at most seat theater. On the stage, a stool and
water....
Tom the excellent program director, introduced Dar for her travels to
Bhutan brought her to the museum. Dar was playing an acoustic set....
.NO MIC... no sound except the two mics hanging from the ceiling mid
way in the hall...
dar opened with the babysitter.... chuckles always mean new dar fans
sure enough.... new fans were made last night
1st set
babysitter
fishing in the morning
so close to my heart
you're aging well
rise and meet the day
what do you love more than love... or flub as dar screwed up the lyrics
blue light of the flame
after all
break
second set
two sides of the river
RAINY NIGHT HOUSE
Beauty of the rain
mercy of the fallen
February
the one who knows
comfortably numb
when i was a boy
encore we learned the sea
and she rocked to Christians and Pagans and Buddhists.
dar talked alot and joked about providing an evening of song and
spoken word, self indulgent spoken word
she spoke about her college years and being a bad buddhist and really
just being depressed... she told her bhutan stories and more than i
had heard before
while dar sang, there were different Hilly, mountainous, curevous
painting being flashed
about 6 total.... if she could have seen them, she would have
thought.... IOWA... for sure
but her talk of the monk of Bhutan and desire of Iowa couldnt go
together... maybe dar could make em fit...
she talked about her son, her finding the path in her life by letting
her life happen and contemplating it at certain points where she felt
that she needed to comtemplate it but generally Just gets a BUTT
KICKING to think about it....
Dar was at her best last night.... and just think NO MIC.... no
acoustics but her voice and the guitar, she said she had to adjust to
the space and lack of mics but she did fine...
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