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[Sharon G]

Note from Dar:
    A big hello from upstate New York!
    I'm writing from my dining room, where I get the best view of the
frozen Hudson River.
    I meant to start writing a formal Hello in December.  The holiday
season was unusually filled with seasonality.  My son, of course, was
doing Santas, menorahs, and Kwanzaa symbolism collages at daycare, but
beyond that, there were Christmas songs with Gandalph Murphy and the
Slambovian Circus of Dreams at a Cold Spring, NY fundraiser at the
beginning of December, the jovial, merry laughter of audiences in
Bath, Maine and Somerville, MA, as I told them that I'd left my guitar
at home (I used Peter Mulvey's guitar in Somerville. Thanks, buddy.),
and, of course, there was the fully decorated tree that almost fell on
me in Westfield, NJ.  But best of all, I wanted to thank the audience
in Northampton, MA for singing with my son at 11:30 pm on December
31st.  It was so, so nice to hear a thousand voices quietly helping
him with the words to Twinkle Little Star.
    We went to California in January, and I had a great time on the
sunny boulevards and little stages of Los Angeles clubs, and the
Eucalyptus-lined roads and groovy stages of Northern California.  And
all three of us enjoyed that California thing where you reach up and
pull a piece of fruit off a tree. Keep that, California.
    I'm heading off (alone) for Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago in late
February. I'm part of Steppenwolf Theater's month-long Traffic Jam
Festival (yes, I'm thrilled about it), and I'll be at the Barrymore in
Madison and the Pabst in Milwaukee, two great stages. Each of these
cities has a few of my favorite haunts, too.  I'll probably head to
Willy St. Coop and the Blue Plate in Madison and Alterra Coffee in
Milwaukee.
    On the last weekend of February, Senator Bill Bradley's interview
with me will be airing on Sirius Radio. He' s as affable and
intelligent as we all hoped he was when he was running for president!
    I don't have a lot of gigs in March, but they're all connected
with things I love, Ossining Matters (a school foundation), Peace
Action in Princeton, and John Gorka in Patterson, NJ.
    Speaking of peace, there's also going to be a week of education
about the human, diplomatic, and financial costs of war at SUNY New
Paltz in mid-March. I'm showing up to be the entertainment at their
speak-out on March 14th.
    And I'm also doing a couple of school visits with middle school
age kids close to Wayne, NJ and Ossining, NY, with guitar and books.
I love hanging out with 9 to 12 year-olds, even when the 12-year-olds
ask me how old I am and how much money I make.
    But that's really it for March, I think.
-Dar


-- 
And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know,
But when time stopped I found the place where the poets go.
And they said, "Here have some coffee, it's straight, black and very old,"
And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold,


sage advisor, does weary mean wiser
dar williams