Ani Difranco News

The four-day Rothbury music fest wound to a close on Sunday. Here are some highlights from the event's final day: Wearing a red headband and playing a weathered acoustic guitar, Willie Nelson and his band ambled through one crowd-pleaser after another on the main Odeum stage, including "City of New Orleans" and "Bloody Mary Morning." Enjoying the ...

A sparkplug of an Australian artist who goes by the single name of Toby continues to light up Blues On Whyte tonight and Sunday evening.

Ita s obvious from the very short list of featured musicians this week, the land of music remains quiet as weary artists take a break from non-stop festivals and shows on their summer tour.

WHATEVER YOU think about one Ani DiFranco album or another , it's crystal clear that she does nothing but what she wants to do and writes nothing but what she feels at any given time.

Folk singer, songwriter and guitarist Ani DiFranco is headed back to the Rogue Valley.

The creative and soulful performer Anais Mitchell will appear at the UVM Recital Hall tonight at 7:30 pm as part of an extended Lane Series season.

Something seems to have tamed the popular music industry's most freedom-loving, aggressive and revolutionary female voice, but it sure isn't any man or woman.

Edmonton, July 28/2008- Ani DiFranco, singer-songwriter performs at the Winspear center with a small band.

Ashante Infantry Pop & Jazz Critic Toronto's Coco Love Alcorn gives a rare local concert Sunday to showcase her eighth disc, Joyful .

The 2009-2010 season for the State Theatre in downtown Ithaca will feature the return of Lyle Lovett, who performed a sold-out acoustic show with John Hiatt in Ithaca last year.

Tickets go on sale Friday for a concert by Ani DiFranco Sept. 15 at Mayo Civic Center's Presentation Hall.

As the only daughter of a music teacher mom and violinist dad, Spektor began piano lessons at age six.

"In a coffee shop in a city, which is every coffee shop in every city, on a day which is every day/ I picked up a magazine, which is every magazine, and read a story, then I forgot it right away/ And they say goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine/ And the little plastic castle is a surprise every time/ And it's hard to say ...

SOME FOLKIES WANT YOU to cry. But more and more, Jenny Owen Youngs just wants her audience to groove.

David Byrne is happy to be "the guinea pig" at this year's Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival.

A star-studded medley of musical guests played tribute to Pete Seeger at a benefit concert for the legendary folk singer's 90th birthday.

Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Ani DiFranco and John Mellencamp were among the 40 musicians performing in Madison Square Garden for the Sunday night show, a benefit to raise awareness for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, an organization Seeger started to preserve and protect the Hudson River.

A lone light shone on Seeger as he opened the show playing a flute solo called 'Menomonee Love Song.' As the lights came up, they revealed the outline of a sloop, fitting for an event dubbed the Clearwater Concert after the organization's vessel, the gaff sloop Clearwater.

Ani DiFranco has been the heroine of National Public Radio listeners, bumper sticker activists and teenage feminists for over a decade now.

Everybody could feel it. The positive energy that swept through the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday night for The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary benefit concert was hard to resist and impossible to ignore.

In the '90s, a the dorm room of almost any college girl would have most certainly turned up one or more of the following albums: "Under the Pink" by Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco's live album "Living in Clip" and Hole's "Live Through This." For the more indie girls, maybe a couple of PJ Harvey's records.

In her nearly two-decade career, Ani DiFranco has consistently released new boundless forms of folk rock almost every year.