Dar Williams to perform benefit concert

Dar Williams to perform at Triform Camphill Community?s 14th Annual Benefit Concert Friday, June 24, 2016 at 7:00pm Triform Camphill Community, a residential and therapeutic community for young adults with special needs located in Hudson, NY will host a special benefit concert on Friday, June 24, 2016 at 7:00pm at the Triform Phoenix Center located at 20 Triform Road, Hudson, NY. The program features the music of Dar Williams with a performance by Triform?s students with special needs who form The Triform Bell Choir. Proceeds from this event generate much needed funds to help the community with various initiatives. All proceeds this year will be in support of and to strengthen programs for students with special needs at Triform. Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk. Hendrik Hertzberg of the The New Yorker has described Williams as "one of America?s very best singer-songwriters." She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis. Williams began playing the guitar at age nine and wrote her first song two years later. In 1990, Dar recorded her first album, "I Have No History" produced by Jeannie Deva and engineered by Rob Lehmann at Oak Grove Studios in Malden, MA. Early in Williams's music career, she opened for Joan Baez, who recorded some of her songs (Williams also did a duet with Baez on Ring Them Bells). In 1998, Williams, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky formed the group Cry Cry Cry as a way to pay homage to some of their favorite folk artists. The band released an eponymous album of covers and toured from 1998 to 2000. She has since released six more studio albums on the Razor & Tie label (The Green World (2000; which included "Spring Street", based on Spring Street in SoHo in Manhattan),[6] The Beauty of the Rain (2003), My Better Self (2005), Promised Land (2008)), Many Great Companions (2010), and In the Time of Gods (2012), as well as two live albums (Out There Live (2001) and Live at Bearsville Theater (2007)). The program will be followed by an ice cream social offering organic ice cream made from milk produced on the Triform farm and served in bowls made by the students in the pottery studio. An assortment of Triform Marketplace items including products from the weavery, bakery and pottery studio will also be on display and available for purchase. Tickets for this fundraiser are $75.00/person and can be purchased by calling Marcia Cary at Triform 518-851-9320 x 13. You may also purchase tickets by going to www.triform.org Triform Camphill Community founded in 1979 and located on 500 acres of farm and gardens, welcomes young adults, generally 18-25 years old, with developmental disabilities, as residential or day students. Its mission is to build a vital community life that provides each person the possibility for self-development and fulfillment of potential. Triform is a non-profit organization supported by generous donors dedicated to continuing this important work.