Dar Williams (Wesleyan '89) may be the only singer-songwriter to write a lament for the long-gone tavern Sal's. As a Wesleyan student, and like many Wesleyan students before and after, Williams had the unerring instinct to find the bar in town where the drinks were the least expensive. Sal's was it in the eighties. When Sal's Burned Down is an epitaph for the bar, and for the common dreams and comfort lost when it disappeared, but also about the loss of chances not taken.
Dar Williams will be returning again to Wesleyan for a concert, in a double bill with Paul Baker Hernandez, on Thursday March 26 at 8pm in a concert at Crowell Hall.
Here's what the Center for the Arts has to say:
Dar Williams '89 is an American folk musician and activist whose songs touch upon numerous themes such as religion, adolescence, gender issues and relationships. The Boston Globe describes Williams’ music as “lush soundscapes breathing wetly beneath her elegant, operatic groove and seductively conversational vocals feel like one long, loving lullaby for lives in trouble, peppered with useful wisdom.”
Paul Baker Hernandez is a songwriter, performer, and lecturer specializing in the works of Victor Jara. He now lives in a neighborhood of Managua, Nicaragua. There, Paul is co-founder of Café Sandino, Echoes of Silence and the Victor Jara Cultural Workers Movement, all committed to rolling back global warming by making peace, justice and beauty through creative, sustainable lifestyles and agriculture, people-to-people interchange, just trade, and the arts.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts and Wesleyan's Department of Sociology.
Dar Williams and Paul Baker Hernandez
(Hernandez performs first and Williams second)
Thursday, March 26, 8pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Tickets: $15, $5 Wesleyan Students
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