Dar Williams in Dallas

Dar Williams is an American folk singer-songwriter born in Mount Kisco, New York, in 1967. She became known through albums including The Honesty Room and Mortal City, and songs such as “When I Was a Boy,” “The Christians and the Pagans” and “Iowa.” In the mid-1990s, Dar Williams opened concerts for Joan Baez as her audience expanded beyond the folk-club circuit. She performed on the inaugural Lilith Fair tour in 1997, then recorded and toured as Cry Cry Cry, a trio formed with Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell.

Pat Byrne is an Irish singer-songwriter who plays folk-rooted acoustic music. He won the first season of The Voice of Ireland and went on to release the albums All or Nothing, Rituals and Into the Light. Byrne performed around Ireland after his television win and the release of All or Nothing. After moving to Austin, he developed his live work on the Texas singer-songwriter circuit and appeared at the Kerrville Folk Festival.