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Dar Williamsby Mark Norris |
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Leave it to the singer-songwriter with the clarity of vision and insight to write the tune “Southern California Wants to Be Western New York” to also help out a local charity. Since first emerging on the New England folk scene over a decade ago, Dar Williams has remained a critical favorite and developed into an increasingly polished songwriter. Her latest recording, My Better Self (Razor & Tie), exhibits an artist who is very comfortable in her own creative skin. Offering a clutch of new originals (plus a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” sung with Ani Difranco), My Better Self seems to contain the themes of both self-awareness and community-awareness. In keeping with her new record’s theme of “paying it forward,” Williams’ has created The Echoes Initiative to coincide with her current tour. Designed to help raise understanding and funds for local charities on each stop of the tour, Williams has selected Buffalo-based emergency shelter Compass House (an organization that provides counseling and housing for runaway and homeless youth) as the benefactor of her local performance.
Friday, November 11 at 7pm. Statler Golden Ballroom, 107 Delaware Ave. $20.
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