Show will start promptly at 8pm, without additional support act performances
*****IMPORTANT COVID-19 INFORMATION FOR THIS SHOW*****
We are looking forward to seeing you soon and presenting an exciting season of shows this fall. We’ve missed you!
Please note that your safety is our priority. To that end, the following policy will be in effect at all of our Fall 2021 shows, including this performance:
· Upon entry, every patron must show a completed vaccination record (dated at least 14 days before the show). Photocopy, a photo on your phone, or proof via the DOCKET app (covid19.nj.gov/pages/vaxrecords) will be acceptable. NY patrons can also show Excelsior Pass as proof. A negative Covid test will not be accepted for entry.
· Face coverings will be required to be worn at all times.
· Unvaccinated children of any age will not be permitted to attend.
Proof of vaccination will also be required of volunteers, artists, and any accompanying crew.
Guidelines are subject to change at any time. Please refer to your pre-show email and the website (www.outpostintheburbs.org) for the latest policies applicable to your event. If you are not able to comply with our entry policy you will receive a refund for tickets purchased prior to our COVID policy announcement on 7/29/2021. Please email us at [email protected] to make this request.
Please note that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By visiting Outpost in the Burbs, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19. According to the CDC, COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at preventing COVID-19 disease, especially severe illness and death. COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of people spreading the virus that causes COVID-19. Information on vaccination sites in New Jersey can be found here: https://covid19.nj.gov/pages/finder
We have made these decisions with health and safety as our utmost concern. We look forward to reopening and seeing you soon.
With warm regards - Outpost Board of Trustees
About Dar Williams
Dar Williams’ lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity. Williams strongly believes that all of us possess our own power and ability to achieve, and she rejects the exceptionalism that encourages us to “admire that yonder star,” while making us feel small and insignificant; unworthy of shining on our own but hoping to catch enough distant light to inspire some tiny accomplishment. Williams has always been very interested in how to control our future and this album has to do with the fact that at some point, you just can’t.
Like everyone else, Williams spent 2020 in that state of non-control. She and longtime producer Stewart Lerman tracked most of the album, her 12th studio recording, in November of 2019. In late February of 2020, she cut the title tune in Woodstock with bassist Gail Ann Dorsey and Larry Campbell, who produced the track and played guitars, pedal steel and twangy baritone guitar. When told they had to postpone a mid-March mixing date, Campbell said he wasn’t feeling well anyway. Turns out he’d contracted a serious case of COVID-19. That was a clear sign that at some point, you have to meet life where it meets you …the common thread throughout that these songs, the willingness to meet life as it arrives.
Dar Williams was always in the right place at the right time for the success she’s had over a 25+-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. 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.
“Good and bad things happen, and it’s not necessarily a reward or indictment. I’ve just got to meet it.” Williams observes. “Like, I’m bringing my whole life to this moment; it will surprise me, challenge me, show me where I was wrong, even make a fool out of me, but my job is to show up and not take adversity personally. Real happiness doesn't have to feel like Snoopy dancing with Woodstock; it can just be knowing you have the resilience to meet whatever comes to you. I will call that a good life.”