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Live From The Aviary is an online live streaming concert series featuring the music of Alan Williams, performed in various musical configurations. With multiple cameras and professional audio, each performance will highlight the interaction between musicians, bringing the viewer right into the music, allowing for a more intimate connection. Somewhere between Live from Daryl’s House, Snarky Puppy’s We Like It Here, and Sigur Ros’s Heima, each one-hour live performance will focus on a different theme presented in a different musical setting.

You can support Live From The Aviary via Venmo.com: @AlanWilliamsEvidence

 

  • Musicians:
    Drums: John Sands
    Guitar: Thomas Juliano
    Bass & Vocal: Greg Porter
    Guitar & Vocal: Darleen Wilson
    Vocal & Acoustic Guitar: Alan Williams

Live From The Aviary
Episode Six - Birdsong At Morning
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Alan, Greg, and Darleen joined by Thomas Juliano on guitar and John Sands on drums. We had such a great time that we decided to keep going for a second round.

“Keepsake” can also be found on Alan’s album, Evidence Unearthed.

  • Musicians:
    Guitar: Thomas Juliano
    Drums: John Sands
    Bass: Greg Porter
    Vocal & Acoustic Guitar: Darleen Wilson
    Vocal & Acoustic Guitar: Alan Williams

Live From The Aviary
Episode Five - Birdsong At Morning
Sunday, January 17, 2021

Episode Five features Birdsong At Morning founders Alan Williams, Darleen Wilson, and Greg Porter, along with longtime collaborator Thomas Juliano on guitar, and, for the first time, Boston legend John Sands (Aimee Mann, Lori McKenna) on drums.

“Down in the Hole” was initially released on the Birdsong at Morning’s
A Slight Departure.

  • Audio Recording: Grace Reader
    Lighting: Jeremy Moisson
    Video Recording: Corbin Lewis
    Camera Operators: Jude Porter and Darleen Wilson
    Arranged, mixed, and edited by Alan Williams

    Musicians:
    Greg Porter – bass
    Jeff Fischer – percussion
    Andy Fordyce – percussion
    Eric Giribaldi – mandolin
    Beth Welty – violin
    Jacob Hiser– violin
    Tara Novak – viola
    John Bumstead – cello

Live From The Aviary
A Tribute to Jeff Buckley
Friday, November 13, 2020

Alan and members of Birdsong At Morning perform Jeff Buckley’s classic, “Grace” in the 4th Annual Official Jeff Buckley Tribute Concert, which features musicians all over the world.

Taped during the rehearsal for Episode Three of Live from The Aviary, this features Alan Williams, vocal and guitar.

  • Audio Recording: Grace Reader
    Lighting: Jeremy Moisson
    Video Recording: Corbin Lewis
    Camera Operators: Jude Porter and Darleen Wilson
    Arranged, mixed, and edited by Alan Williams

    Musicians:
    Alan Williams – vocal and guitar
    Greg Porter – bass
    Jeff Fischer – percussion
    Andy Fordyce – percussion
    Eric Giribaldi – mandolin
    Beth Welty – violin
    Jacob Hiser– violin
    Tara Novak – viola
    John Bumstead – cello

Live From The Aviary
Episode Three - A whole different sound…
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Alan pulls some rarely performed gems from the Birdsong At Morning catalog, in a special setting with percussion and a string quartet.

“So Near” is the debut live performance of a song that Alan wrote for the Birdsong At Morning box set, Annals of My Glass House

  • Audio Recording: Grace Reader
    Lighting: Jeremy Moisson
    Video Recording: Corbin Lewis
    Camera Operators: Jude Porter and Darleen Wilson
    Arranged, mixed, and edited by Alan Williams

    Musicians:
    Alan Williams – vocal and guitar
    Greg Porter – bass
    Shane Alexander – drums
    Eric Giribaldi – electric guitar
    Matt Swanton – electric guitar
    Blair Leavitt – vocals, keyboard 
    Andrew Nugent – vocals, acoustic guitar 

Live From The Aviary
Episode Two - One more time with the Evidence crew!
Sunday, October 4, 2020

We continue to celebrate the release of Evidence Unearthed and sharpen the quality of our multi-cam webcast series.

“Always” is the debut live performance of a song that Alan wrote for Evidence Unearthed.

  • Audio Recording: Grace Reader
    Lighting: Jeremy Moisson
    Video Recording: Corbin Lewis
    Camera Operators: Jude Porter and Darleen Wilson
    Arranged, mixed, and edited by Alan Williams

    Musicians:
    Alan Williams – vocal and guitar
    Greg Porter – bass
    Shane Alexander – drums
    Eric Giribaldi – electric guitar
    Matt Swanton – electric guitar
    Blair Leavitt – vocals, keyboard
    Andrew Nugent – vocals, acoustic guitar

Live From The Aviary
Episode One - Join us for the kick off!
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Celebrating the release of Evidence Unearthed and the maiden voyage of our multi-cam webcast series.

Alan leads a band that includes long-time friend and collaborator, Greg Porter (Birdsong At Morning, Knots and Crosses) and several graduates of the music program at UMass Lowell (where Alan began teaching soon after he shelved the initial version of the album).