February 28, 2003

• The tabs for Your Fire Your Soul have been added to the Play with Dar section, thanks to a Finnish Dar fan!
• Bunch of new dates added to the tour schedule.
• Join the Dar-chat tonight on IRC. Details.

February 26, 2003

• Dar will be playing on Sat. July 26 at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, yay!
• Ben Taylor, son of James Taylor and Carly Simon,  will be opening for Dar for the first 3 1/2 weeks on the spring tour, through April
  29th.

February 25, 2003

• New date added to the tour sked.

February 24, 2003

• Bob Hyland sent some fantastic photos from the show at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC. They're in the special section of the gallery, so check them out.
• Added a new page for The Beauty of the Rain to the music section. It's still sort of a work in progress.
• An article from the Washington Blade has been added to the library.

February 23, 2003

• Click here for a chance to win an MP3 player pre-loaded with Dar's new CD.

February 22, 2003

• Added a slew of photos from the CD release day. They're in the special events section of the gallery.
• If anyone else has photos from the Bowery Ballroom show and would like to share them, I'd be happy to add them to the gallery. Please e-mail me.
• MEDIA ALERT: The World Cafe show featuring songs and interview with Dar will be rebroadcast on March 1.

February 18, 2003
Well this is one happy, tired, and wickedly sick webmaster returning from a whirlwind trip to New York City for The Beauty of the Rain release show. And it was fabulous. Keep your eyes here for some pix, and maybe more, of the event. In the meantime, on with the news and there's a bit.

• MEDIA ALERT: Chicago fans: you can still get FREE tickets to see Dar and Kasey Chambers taping a show on Friday February 21st for the PBS series "Soundstage" to air this summer on Channe11 WTTW in Chicago and nationally on PBS. If you'd like to attend intimate show, call the Soundstage hotline at 773-279-2111. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Dar will be with her full, great band so go if you can. Did I mention, it's free!
• Fixed up some links on the Play with Dar page.
• If you buy the BOTR at Borders, you can get a free Razor and Tie sampler that has a thus-far unreleased track: a cover of John Lennon's Imagine (and I wouldn't say no, if someone were to say, make it possible for me to hear this since I'm living in a Borders-free country).
• Update to the tour schedule
• Note from Dar's manager Ron Fierstein about future tour dates:
• L.A. - I can guarantee you Southern left coasters that there will be an LA show - most likely at the beautiful outdoor John Anson Ford Amphitheater
  on Saturday, May 17.  This should be confirmed shortly and announced thereafter.  This is a larger venue than last time, so we need to work hard to turn out the masses to fill it up.  Should be a wonderful evening. 
• Nashville - as for the music capital, Dar will be doing a special solo appearance at 3rd & Lindley as part of the WRLT Sunday night series there - that will be on March 23rd.  As this is the first album that has received serious support from radio in Nashville, I see this appearance as a step towards making Nashville a potential stop on the tour with the band.  If we get the kind of turnout for this show that I'm hoping for, the chances are good that we will do a show in late May at the Belcourt Theater on the band tour.  But again, we have to have a good turnout on 3/23.

February 17, 2003

• Update to the tour schedule.
• Go out and get The Beauty of the Rain tomorrow. Do Not Delay. Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200!

February 13, 2003

• Tab for Whispering Pines has been added to the Play with Dar section.
• Lyrics for a few more songs have been added to the Music Page.
• Here's Rolling Stone's review of The Beauty of the Rain.
• If you live in Chicago you have a chance to see Dar live and free!
• Here's a note from Dar's management :Dar is taping a PBS show called Soundstage next Friday night, Feb. 21, at the WTTW studios in Chicago. There are two artists who will be performing: Dar and Kasey Chambers.  We are allowed to add some of our own enthusiastic fans to their guest list, so if you'd like to go please e-mail Lisa directly (with your full name, for the list) and she will endeavor to set it up.

February 12, 2003

• Fixed a bunch of song lyrics on the music page plus a bit of other tinkering with that page.
• Update to fans page.

February 11, 2003

• New tour date added.
• An update to the SET page.
• The pre-release special online stream is not available from amazon.ca or amazon.co.uk

February 10, 2003

• Starting today, if you pre-buy The Beauty of the Rain from amazon.com you'll get an online stream of the entire album featuring an exclusive introduction of each song by Dar Williams that will be instantly playable through the release date.
• New tour dates.
• A new article has been added to the library.
• This week, Dar will be the featured artist on the Online Folk Festival, a streaming Internet radio station on live365.com.
• Media Alert: Don't forget at 11 a.m. EST today on WFUV -- City Folk Live: Darren DeVivo welcomes Dar Williams to the studio

February 9, 2003

• During the tour for The Beauty of the Rain and over the course of the year, Dar will be promoting the Solar Electric Light Fund. Click here to read Dar's statement about SELF and also a messages from SELF's executive direct.
• Additions made to the Discography.
• Neil Pearson of Fish Records informs us that the UK release of Beauty of the Rain does not come in a digipak, but in a regular jewel case, and has different cover art, as you can see!

February 8, 2003

• A few of Dar's instore appearances had to be moved to different days, due to a last-minute booking for a PBS music program entitled Soundstage, which will be taped in Chicago to air sometime this spring. The NYC and Philly instores have changed by a couple of days. A few others have been added/update. Details. 
• Date added to the tour sked.

February 6, 2003

• There's a little video from Dar on darwilliams.com about writing for the new CD. It's in Windows Media, and if you're using Netscape on a Mac, you're out of luck, I learned the hard way.

February 5, 2003

• MEDIA ALERT  On Monday, Feb. 10, at 11 a.m.,  Dar will do an in-studio appearance on radio station WFUV's City Folk Live.
  City Folk is still streamed on the net at www.wfuv.org/wfuvlive.asx.   Thanks to Jeff Bernstein for the alert.
• There's details on the final song line-up for The Beauty of the Rain on the news page.

February 3, 2003

• New U.S. west coast dates added to the tour schedule.
• The Beauty of the Rain is the CD of the week on WYEP in Pittsburgh. That means that they feature it all week and with a donation of $60 or
  more, you can receive a copy. You may even get it before the release date.  Thanks to Scott Antall for the alert.
• Here's some information about how to get tickets for Dar in Columbus, Ohio at "Loving With Pride," the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender and Ally College Conference.  For more information click here. For people that are not going to the conference, the tickets will be going on sale later this week (maybe as early as today).  There are not a lot of them. They will be on sale at "An Open Book," the gay
  bookstore in the Short North here in Columbus. Tickets will be $12 plus a $1 service charge to Open Book.  Thanks to Sally Green for passing on the info.