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Dar Williams’ lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity. She strongly believes that all of us possess our own power and ability to achieve. Williams was always in the right place at the right time for the success she’s had over a 25+-year career. She was inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets, and folk artists like Patty Griffith, Vance Gilbert, and Jonatha 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. The common thread among the songs on Williams’ eleventh and newest studio album, I’ll Meet You Here, is the willingness to meet life as it arrives. “Her writing and teaching spans songwriting retreats, books, yoga, and urban planning. Glimpses of her other interests feature in her songs as she confronts issues of the deepest gravity with a lightness that has always made her records…so accessible.” (No Depression).
“…one of America’s very best singer songwriters…”
—The New Yorker
Abe Partridge is a heralded musician, singer/songwriter, visual artist, and podcaster based in Mobile, Alabama. His 2018 debut, Cotton Fields and Blood For Days, earned him rave reviews. Since the release, Partridge has toured relentlessly, developing a reputation for moving, passionate, and sometimes comedic, performances at prestigious songwriter festivals. He is a regular at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe. “He plays guitar the same way he writes lyrics, bashing the strings with abandon…then beautifully picking the notes until every last word falls into place.” (The Bitter Southerner).
7:30 pm, Doors open 7:00 pm
Grandview Heights
High School Auditorium
1587 West Third Avenue
Columbus, OH 43212
$35, general admission (no service fee)
