December 30, 2002

• For your new year's viewing pleasure, a whole slew of new PR photos for the upcoming release of The Beauty of the Rain have been added to the photo gallery.
• Dar's management is moving offices and are reorganizing their business. As of the new year, the e-mail for contact will be ronagf@rfent.com

• Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating it today.
• Tabs for two more songs from The Beauty of the Rain added to the Play with Dar section.
  

• Now that the songs from The Beauty of the Rain are flitting around, we have the first tabs from it for The One Who Knows. Go Play with Dar!
  

• The first purchaser fell through so I still  have a pair of tickets to the Dar/Nields/Catie Curtis show on New Year's Eve in Northampton, Ma., that I need to sell. They're in the front balcony and cost $75US for the pair (negotiable). E-mail me if you're interested.
  

• Fanscape has a "Dar Williams Flash Player" which will let you listen to six of the 11 new songs from The Beauty of the Rain, in their entirety.
  
• A whole whack of new dates  added to the tour schedule.
  

• Update to the tour schedule.
• It's Friday, so join the Dar-chat. Details on the Fans page.
• Check the appearances page for times today and Sunday of radio broadcasts/streams of the Downtown Messiah, in which Dar performed.
  

• The new and improved darwilliams.com is up and running. New pix, new look, check it out.
• The press release from Razor and Tie, in which Dar discusses The Beauty of the Rain, has been added to the library.
• On the other end of the scale, I dug up the first posting from Dar's management about her original record deal with Razor and Tie. It's also been added to the library.
  

• The lyrics to The World is Not Falling Apart have been added to the music page.
• Lisa at AGF reports they have approved the use of a live, in-studio version of Wilder Than Her for a compilation radio station KPIG is putting together. More details when I get them!

• I have a pair of tickets to the Dar/Nields/Catie Curtis show on New Year's Eve in Northampton, Ma., that I need to sell. They're in the front balcony and cost $75US for the pair (negotiable). E-mail me if you're interested.
  

• You can listen to the full version of I Saw A Bird Fly Away, the first single from Beauty of the Rain, at Fanscape. It's in Real Audio. While there you can also sign up for the Dar Williams' "street team!"
• The title track to The Beauty of The Rain  will be featured in this week's episode of "Alias," the ABC show that airs on Sunday nights at 9pm (8pm central).  Listen for "Beauty" during the airport scenes.

• Some holiday cards have been added to the Dar E-cards.
  

• Looks like this is the new cover art for The Beauty of the Rain.
• DarWilliams.Com is in the process of being updated for the new album's release in February and they're starting off by running a program to get fans involved in spreading the word about Dar in their town.
• One Way magazine, a freebie that is given out in some record stores in the U.S., has Dar featured on the free winter sampler that comes with the magazine.
  

• Update to the tour schedule.
  

• In honour of Philip Berrigan's passing, Dar and Razor and Tie, at the request of many fans, have authorized darwilliams.net to put up a full downloadable version of "I Have No Right." It can be downloaded from the music page's download section.  It is an MP3 but I would prefer to keep it up for a long time in realaudio format, which uses much less space, so if anyone knows how to convert it, I'd appreciate the help.
• A new article, going in the January issue of Paste magazine, has been added to the library.
  

• Sadly,  anti-war activist Philip Berrigan died on Friday. The Berrigans's story is eloquently told in Dar's "I Have No Right" on The Green World. Here are some articles on Philip Berrigan: Washington Post;  CNN; Syracuse Post-Standard.
  

• The lyrics to Your Fire, Your Soul, from the upcoming CD have been added to the new song section of the  music page.
• If you want to hear some songs from Beauty of the Rain, Vin Scelsa played Whispering Pines and The World Is Not Falling Apart on his Idiot's Delight radio show on WFUV, Sat. Nov. 30. He may have played other cuts, but I haven't finished listening to my tapes yet. Whispering Pines about 9 minutes in and TWNFA is at 47 minutes 45 seconds (exactly!).   Got to WFUV's site and click on the archives link at the left.  Thanks to Jeff Bernstein and Kirsti Reeve for the info.
• Oh yeah, don't forget about Dar Chat on IRC tonight.  Details.
  

• Update to the tour schedule.
  

• Update to the discography.