[Cover photo credit to Carly Rae Brunault]

Singer/songwriter  Dar Williams conjures dreams of springtime with her new single “Tu Sais Le Printemps,” out now, from her upcoming album, Hummingbird Highway.

On her 13th album, Hummingbird Highway, out September 12, 2025 on Righteous Babe Records, Williams celebrates the glimpses of life she’s seized from her vantage as a touring musician.

Since 2013, Williams has been leading songwriting workshops where she teaches students to let songs find their own trajectories.

While writing thebossa nova influences “Tu Sais Le Printemps,” Williams “questioned why she was writing a light, flirty song amidst many gloomy news stories.”

She shares:

I was having coffee with some of my fellow retreat leaders and Beth Nielsen Chapman, telling them about my ‘frilly’ song, and Beth said, ‘That’s just what I want to hear right now!’ It was a nice moment to follow my own advice and let the song find its way.  

Williams explains about her music:

As I’ve gotten older, I feel more comfortable holding a lot of different threads in my hand to create more complicated patterns. Time has given me a better ability to hold a bunch of colors and temperaments and see what happens, where they become interesting new stories and also where I need to stop and untangle the themes and characters. It’s daunting, and I’ve learned that, you know, daunting is fine, just keep going.