Concerts…
Since October 2024, all Bet Williams concerts were cancelled due to a serious injury. For more info, please visit the GoFundMe for Bet. She is slowly returning to stages this Spring.
Join Bet’s Re-entry concerts…
Saturday, April 19 • PHOENIXVILLE, PA
7:00pm (6:30pm doors)
THE BUNGALOW Kimberton
Bet Williams Trio
w Kevin MacConnell - bass, Dave Biddison - drums
info@betwilliams.com to reserve. $25 Limited Seating.
Saturday, May 3 • PHOENIXVILLE, PA
7:00pm (6:30pm doors)
THE BUNGALOW Kimberton
Mike & Dave Biddison w Bet. Song sharing and heavenly harmonies. This will be a totally acoustic concert. It’s awesome. Reservations info@betwilliams.com to reserve. $25 Limited Seating.
Friday, June 27 • PHILADELPHIA
7:00pm (6:30pm doors)
THE SALON
Contact Laura Bertin for reservation
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About Bet Williams
“A new-folk, blues-roots tone poet with a highly charismatic stage presence and an astonishing four-octave range voice.” - National Public Radio
THE OFFICIAL STORY:
Bet Williams is a fearless vocalist and dynamic performer whose four-octave-range voice has mesmerized audiences across America and Europe. Williams' music blends folk, rock and roots rhythms with intelligent lyrics and infectious hooks. With a gift for storytelling and spontaneous humor, her stage performances go from profound and poetic to wild and spontaneous, at times bordering on performance art.
“Her lyrics are at once thought-provoking and humorous, poetic and passionate. The emphasis is on rootsy, blues-influenced music that showcases her four-octave powerhouse voice.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
BET WILLIAMS BAND
Bet Williams with Marc Gransten from Sweden - the grooviest bassist in Europe, and “Defunkt” drummer legend, Kenny Martin.
With an astounding 4-octave-range voice, intelligent lyrics and a highly charismatic stage presence, Bet Williams infatuates audiences with “super human reserves of energy” (New York Daily News). Full of raw emotion and a startling honesty, she ventures places most performers hesitate to go. When the Bet Williams Band takes the stage; folk, rock and blues merge with stirring melodies and infectious grooves.
Audiences around the world have been mesmerized by what SING OUT! Magazine calls “the sheer beauty of her instrument and the passion with which she sings.” On festival stages with the powerful energy of the band, or in small theaters with a single acoustic guitar, Bet creates huge soundscapes with her voice that reach beyond the boundaries of folk, blues, world music or rock. “Bet Williams is a performer who is seething with life,” according to NPR. No wonder she has appeared on stages with artists such as Taj Mahal, Joan Osborne, Herbie Hancock, Arlo Guthrie and Lucinda Williams.
BET'S VERSION:
When I was thirteen, living in Virginia, I got my first guitar. With the two chords I had just learned, I pressed my fingers into a sad love song (after all I was thirteen). Many chords and some decades later I am still writing songs. Some sad, some funny, some poignant, confessional or wild. But over the years I found that what I really like to do is play live.
I spent my college years playing with groups like Bookends and Ticapoo Brain. I made my first CDs in Nashville with producer Brad Jones (Jill Sobule, Marshall Crenshaw) and Jim Rooney (John Prine, Nanci Griffith). I was too quirky for Nashville so I headed up the coast to play in Philadelphia and New York where I found some lifelong friends and a great music scene. I’ve shared the stage with some incredible musicians including Lucinda Williams, Bobbie McFerrin, Arlo Guthrie, Taj Mahal, Joan Osborne, Annie Haslam, The Corrs, Herbie Hancock and a bunch of other wonderful artists.
I’ve had my California years with record deals, big time actors and big promises. I’ve worked on organic farms, danced at Rainbow Festivals, and marched against wars. I’ve had my New York City and Woodstock Chapters. Then there were the years in Berlin when we toured continually around Europe. Not to mention the Armenian years, playing music with my family band (John Hodian and our awesome then 12-year-old son on drums) and writing songs under the spell of the beautiful and mysterious, Mount Ararat.
Now I survive (spiritually and financially) by touring the world as a solo artist and with my band, the Bet Williams Band. From New York to California, Berlin to Paris, Copenhagen to Armenia. I sing songs for a living. It's an interesting life. A strange, interesting and magical life. Even in these crazy times. Music goes on. I believe to gather is more important now than ever before. To share thoughts, ideas, music, art, different points of view. To listen to each other. To share the joy of being alive together, with all life, on this planet.
HOST A HOUSE CONCERT!
If you think you might want to host a Bet Williams house concert, we can explain how easy and fun it is to bring music into your home and share it with your friends. Yes, anywhere in the world. Or if you have a favorite venue near you that would be interested, let us know by emailing info@betwilliams.com
BEt AT THE FARMHOUSE. IN Pennsylvania - FIRESIDE SONGS AND CHAT
The LOVESTREAM REVOLUTION!
These sessions were broadcast from the fireplace in my studio of an old stone farmhouse in Pennsylvania on sundays from January to April 2024. People from all over joined the stream for an easy hour where I could try out brand new songs, play old favorites, explore odd cover Tunes, and converse with visitors in the chat. A few shows had invited live audiences several had surprise guest artists. perhaps we’ll do it again…
Meanwhile, you can check out the sessions on my YouTube channel under Live Videos. So stay tuned by getting on the mailing list. Keep Bringing love!
bet williams & elizabeth lee on tour in Germany
HARLEM • Spring 2020 block concerts - No Masks
RECORDING THE NEW ALBUM, “Magic beauty pain” now and into spring. due out FALL 2025
KICKSTARTER THANKS! Thanks for everyone who helped make the Kickstarter for my new album, Magic Beauty Pain, a success! Big thanks to Kevin and Jenny for helping with the video, Abi for footage and feedback and Jonathan, Achim at 7V for songs from the studio. And Laurelyn Dossett at the end stretch doing Livestreams with me from Ramble on Big Creek in N.C.! We did it. The album is currently being recorded. There are still many new songs that are making their way onto the project.
in New Hope, PA “Concerts at the Farm.” THANKS for another fantastic Porch Concert in New Hope, PA last May! We loved the fire pits, thanks Don! And Ann for the great guac.
At the Jazz Club • ThÜRingen, Germany
Thank you Elizabeth lee, ben arnold, kevin mac, dave biddison and so many good friends and family. i loved my BIG TENT birthday bash - thanks for sharing it with me.