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Saturday, March 16th, 2013

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Dar Williams makes her debut at The Monkey on the heels of traveling the world in support her latest collection of recordings, entitled In The Time Of Gods. Raised in Chappaqua, N.Y., and educated at Wesleyan University, Williams spent 10 years living in the thriving artistic community of Northampton, Mass., where she began to make the rounds on the coffeehouse circuit. Joan Baez, an early fan of her music, took Williams out on the road and recorded several of her songs.

With her latest effort, Williams blends her passion for social activism with the complex and mysterious world of mythology. “I’m interested in power right now,” she says. “I’m in my 40s, and I’m shocked that the café conversations I had in my 20s—‘Somebody has to do something!’— are now my responsibility. I see people who are actually doing things that you always dreamed somebody would do, and I can help make that a reality. So the stakes are higher, in a good way, but you also see the shadow, the reckless behavior, where a person can lose it all in a weekend.”

Patty Larkin
Heralded as “riveting” (Chicago Tribune) and “hypnotic” (Entertainment Weekly), Patty Larkin is a self-described “guitar driven songwriter” with an impressive 25 year career as one of the great voices of the contemporary urban folk scene. A winner of an unprecedented 11 Boston Music Awards, Larkin has re-interpreted traditional folk and rock melodies with her distinctive vocals and guitar wizardry. On her latest CD 25, she uses her remarkable guitar skills and creative vocals to rework favorite songs by friends like Martin Sexton and Shawn Colvin in an acoustic, unplugged performance.

“A virtuoso guitar player and mood-shaper…She is also a superb slide guitarist whose mature work is comparable to the best of Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams.” - The New York Times