Live Music: Dar Williams

Dar Williams was always in the right place at the right time for the success she’s had over a 25-plus-year career. She rose out of the vibrant mid-’90’s Boston scene, inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets and folk artists, like Patty Griffith, Melissa Ferrick, the Throwing Muses, Vance Gilbert and Jonatha Brooke.

Williams will play the Mineral Point Opera House with opening act Madison singer/songwriter Heather Maloney. Tickets are on sale at tickets.mpoh.org.

After a year of touring non-stop with her first album, “The Honesty Room” in 1994, she was invited by Joan Baez to tour in Europe and the United States. Meanwhile, thanks to her avid supporters and 100,000+ sales for each new album, Dar’s literate but highly listenable songs were showing up everywhere from commercial radio to college reading lists.