Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Listen to Robin & Linda Williams
For three decades now, Robin and Linda Williams have been playing the music that they love, a robust blend of bluegrass, folk, old-time and acoustic country that combines wryly observant lyrics with a wide-ranging melodicism. As live performers, they are second to none; as gifted songwriters they have earned the devotion and deep respect of their musical peers.
Robin and Linda met and fell for each other in 1971 while she was teaching school and he was a full-time musician on a national coffeehouse circuit. It wasn’t long before they discovered additional magic when they combined their voices in harmony. In 1975 they recorded their first album in Minneapolis for a local record company and made their first appearance on a little radio show just getting off the ground called “A Prairie Home Companion.”
In the decades since, they have recorded twenty albums, performed at The Grand Ole Opry and Austin City Limits, Music City Tonight and Mountain Stage, clubs, festivals and countless other venues, and written songs that have been covered by some of the greats of country music, including Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, George Hamilton IV, Tim & Mollie O’Brien, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kathy Mattea and The Seldom Scene.
In concert, Robin’s guitar and Linda’s banjo are joined by Jim Watson, formerly of the Red Clay Ramblers, on bass and harmony vocal and bluegrass veteran Jimmy Gaudreau on mandolin or dynamic Chris Brashear on fiddle.
This project is supported by the