On a road trip through the Galilee in northern Israel, my friend and songwriting mentor Dar Williams and I recorded this beautiful song by Richard Shindell.
Love songs are darker and lovelier in French. My buddy Lindsey Massar and I recorded this impromptu cover of Pomme’s gorgeous song “On brûlera”:
My songwriting family recorded James Taylor’s classic “You’ve Got A Friend” as a tribute to our fellow singer/songwriter Eniid (Carol) Goodman. For details of Carol’s healing journey from cancer, and to contribute to her crucial GoFundMe campaign, visit gofundme.com/eniid039s-recovery-from-cancer.
And enjoy the cameos of some amazing songwriters!
Once upon a time, I sang a lot of a cappella pop music in college and grad school. Some pals of mine from the olden days who missed singing have put together an all-remote group, and they’re making music videos together from all over the world. I joined them for one of their early tunes: the Doobie Brothers “Listen To The Music.”
At every show I see, I write down a setlist.
The Weepies
Revolution Hall, Portland, OR
2015 06 05
Deb Talan, Steve Tannen, and a full band:
Encore:
At every show I see, I write down a setlist.
The Pine Hill Project: Richard Shindell + Lucy Kaplansky
Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, OR
2015 05 14
With guitarist Marc Shulman.
New York: The Indigo Girls are playing a benefit show next Saturday night (May 9th) in New York City at Webster Hall. They will be performing a full 70 minute set of acoustic music in support of the Survivor Mitzvah Project. You can buy tickets online here.
The Survivor Mitzvah Project is an amazing organization: they do direct work with elderly Holocaust survivors in eastern Europe, providing both emergency aid (food, shelter, medicine) and an opportunity to share their stories and revisit the towns (peaceful and war-torn) of their childhood. As they say in their mission statement: “They are the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and we are the last generation who can help.” And in this case, you get to help by going to an Indigo Girls show. So that seems like a no-brainer!
The event, by the way, is at Webster Hall, one of the my favorite venues in NYC (up there in the mid-sized venue category alongside Town Hall, City Winery, Society for Ethical Culture). It’s been around since the early 1900s, was a pre-prohibition site for labor rallies and masquerade balls, became a speakeasy, and then a recording studio, and the reopened as an event space.
Clear your Saturday night and buy a ticket; it’ll be worth it!
At every show I see, I write down a setlist.
Dar Williams
Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, OR
2014 06 08
Opener: Anne Weiss
Band: Bryn Roberts (keyboards)
At every show I see, I write down a setlist.
1. Asleep At Last
2. Swing Low, Sail High
3. Bird Song
4. Arlington
5. Weary Blues
6. Deeper Well (Emmylou Harris cover)
7. Across the Sea
8. Glory Bound
9. Light of a Clear Blue Morning (Dolly Parton cover)
10. Beautiful Dawn
11. Begin
12. Wildflowers (Tom Petty cover)
13. Cherry Blossom Love
14. Last Goodbye
15. One Voice
Encore:
16. Storm Comes
Palate cleanser: pants are for keeping you warm (kids’ song)
17. The Parting Glass (traditional Scottish song – off mic!)
City Winery, NYC
Live, From A City Near You 