Cris Williamson returns to the Triple Door in Seattle for a special hometown celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the groundbreaking album, The Changer and the Changed. Initially released in 1975 on Olivia Records, The Changer and the Changed became the soundtrack of a movement and went on to become one of the best-selling independent albums of all time.
 
Cris also appears in celebration of the release of her latest album, Ravens and the Roses, produced by Cris and Julie Wolf ---  nine songs - deep, yet joyful reflections on our times - songs that were initially penned for her popular monthly livestreams, now in their fifth year. 
 
Join us as we celebrate 50 years and the legendary Cris Williamson. 

Cris Williamson bio:
 
Singer, songwriter, musician, teacher, activist Cris Williamson is one of the most important figures from the women's music movement rooted in the '70s. Williamson continues to be a fearless trailblazer, an avowed feminist, and a proud lesbian long before most dared to come out. Her album, The Changer and the Changed, released on the label she helped found, Olivia Records, became one of the best-selling independent releases of all time. Cris has continued to write, record, teach, and tour, including three sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Along with touring, a new album and a documentary in the works, her 2022 release Harbor Street serves as a mirror of these difficult times. Her latest album, her 34th, Ravens and the Roses, features songs penned for her popular monthly livestreams, now in their sixth year. Cris, along with Judy Dlugacz, was awarded the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award. 
 
More about The Changer and the Changed:
 
NPR ranked the record as tone of the greatest albums made by a female artist, saying:
 
‘I’m kind of hand-carried, person to person,’ Cris Williamson told the journalist Ben Fong-Torres in 1981, when asked how people discovered her music. ‘There are secretaries who’ve told me they can’t get through the day without running home during lunch hour and playing it.’ Such was the impact of the Wyoming native’s voice, clear as a mountain stream, and her empathetic songwriting, which made this album one of the best-selling independent releases of all time and the cornerstone of the feminist ‘women’s music’ movement. Produced by Williamson and featuring dozens of the era’s finest women musicians — including guitarists Meg Christian and June Millington, bass virtuoso Jacqueline Robbins and vocalists Holly Near and Margie Adam — Changer blended pop, country and folk elements in songs that were both cuttingly intimate and generously communal. (A few featured large choruses inspired by the sing-alongs women’s music artists inspired in concert.) Williamson’s own keyboard playing ranged from contemplative to dance-floor funky. The clear and confident lesbian desire behind love songs like ‘Sweet Woman’ and ‘Dream Child’ made Williamson a sex symbol; her philosophical side made Changer a record of spiritual growth, too. Speaking what at the time remained mostly unspoken in pop, this album truly changed lives. - NPR Music