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6/23/2009
WIN TICKETS TO AN ANI SUMMER TOUR DATE NEAR YOU!We know times are tough – so to spread a little joy and sunshine we’re giving you two ways to win tickets to one of Ani’s summer tour dates near you (sorry folks, no festivals…)
Relix Magazine is giving away a pair of tickets on their website to one lucky winner all you have to do is enter here.
For our Facebook friends go to the Ani DiFranco musician Facebook page, browse events and RSVP (Maybe or Yes) to the show you want to win tickets for, we’ll pick a winner at random three days before the show…already bought tickets? That’s okay – if you win, share the love with some friends!
Check out all of Ani’s upcoming upcoming tour dates here. and Good Luck!
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6/12/2009
ENJOY BONNAROO FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME!Didn’t get tickets to the Bonnaroo festival this year? That doesn’t mean you have to miss the Little Folksinger (or any of the other amazing performances for that matter). For the full festival experience put on some patchouli, smear a little mud on your sandaled feet and invite a bunch of friends to dance with you around your computer room… then go to music.att.net and watch Ani live online at 6:30p CST tonight! |
5/19/2009
SINGER, SONGWRITER, PUNDIT!? ANI ON AC360 CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke with Ani this past Friday on AC360 about the ongoing struggles for democracy in Burma, and specifically about the status of Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratic opposition leader currently under house arrest. You can watch the interview on the AC360 Daily Podcast here, Ani’s segment is about 18 minutes in.
Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is currently on trial for allegedly breaking the terms of her detention which was scheduled to end this month. If convicted she can face five years in jail. To learn more about what’s happening in Burma, and how you can help, visit the US Campaign for Burma.
In 2004 the US Campaign for Burma arranged for Ani to visit refugee camps there and learn first hand of the countries struggles. Learn more about Ani’s trip to Burma in her photo gallery here.
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5/14/2009
RIGHTEOUS BABE DECLARES JULY ‘JON STEWART’ MONTHLast night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart let the world know his lack of love for poetry…despite having a knack for rhyme himself. But after shaking his fist at White House Poetry Jams he mentioned how much he was looking forward to June which he declared is now Ani DiFranco month! (ok, he said Annie DiFranco but we’ll overlook the mispronunciation) You can check out the Daily Show clip here.
Since we love a good rant (even at our expense), and, well, cause we think he’s damn funny, us folks at Righteous Babe Records are calling for July to be declared Jon Stewart month.
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5/13/2009
ROCK STARS’ CARS & GUITARS 2 AT THE HENRY FORDLooking for a dose of culture in your life? Starting May 16, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan appeals to the rockers in all of us with their new exhibit “Rock Stars’ Cars & Guitars 2.” Featuring more than 20 cars and over 50 guitars, the show includes one of Ani’s own acoustics on display along side axes from Jimi Hendrix, Gene Simmons and Alice Cooper and cars from Elvis Presley, Sheryl Crowe and Soundgarden.
“Rock Stars’ Cars & Guitars 2” is on display through September 7, tickets and more information are available online here.
And if you can’t make it to Dearborn, then why not give your local history or art museum a second look…a lot has changed since that fourth grade field trip.
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5/6/2009
NEW OFFICIAL BOOTLEG RELEASE – SARATOGA, CA 9.18.06The latest release in the Official Bootleg Series takes you to the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California. On September 18, 2006 the Little Folksinger took the stage with Todd Sickafoose (upright bass) and Mike Dillon (percussion and vibes) and spirits were high. Now you can relive the joy with 19 tracks of pure live bliss including the first Official Bootleg recordings of “Studying Stones,” “Coming Up,” “Red Letter Year,” and “Star Matter.” Reserve your copy now, only available in the Righteous Babe Store! |
4/30/2009
NEW ANI SHOW ADDED IN PITTSBURGH JULY 8 – TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW!The spring tour is winding down but there are still plenty of chances to catch Ani and the band this summer! A new date has just been added to in Pittsburgh, PA at the Rex Theatre on July 8. Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster.com tomorrow morning (May 1) at 10 am through ticketmaster.com. Check out the tour page to catch an Ani show near by you! |
4/21/2009
MORE LIVE ANI FOOTAGE ONLINE! NATGEO GEO SESSIONS POSTED!Still can’t get enough live Ani to see you through to the next concert? No worries - National Geographic recently posted Ani’s exclusive Geo Sessions performance on the web here. Recorded at a private taping in DC last May and posted in two parts, stream over 20 minutes of concert footage (including “Smiling Underneath,” “Subdivision” and “As Is”) and interview footage with the Little Folksinger herself. |
4/20/2009
ANI LIVE FROM ARTISTS DEN ON MSN.COMLooking for something to check out online to kill a little time? Hulu’d out? Tired of sifting through countless amateur YouTube vids? On Sunday MSN.com posted segments of Ani’s Live from the Artist Den, here. Watch live performances of “Present/Infant,” “32 Flavors,” and “Red Letter Year” along with some great interview clips and more (with limited commercial interruption). Enjoy! |
4/15/2009
ANI’S ROCKIN’ THE RECORD STORE (IN MAINE)For all of you in the New England area (more specifically, in southern Maine), there will be a rare in-store appearance with Ani this Friday, April 17 in Scarborough, Maine! Prior to her show that evening at Merrill Auditorium in Portland – and in honor of Record Store Day (which is the following day) - Ani is taking time out for a performance and interview with WCLZ, recorded in front of a studio audience at Bull Moose Music. This historic event starts at 1pm; Bull Moose’s Scarborough store is at 456 Payne Road. If you can’t make it out on Friday, tune in or log on to hear the interview and performance on WCLZ a little past 3pm Eastern Time.
Just a reminder – Saturday, April 18 is Record Store Day – support your local independent record store. To search for a store and events near you, click on the following link: Record Store Day |
4/2/2009
WIN TICKETS TO AN ANI SHOW NEAR YOU – NEW DATES ANNOUNCEDFeeling Crafty? Head on over to the Righteous Babe Store and put your creative energies to work for you! We’re holding a Righteous Babe Egg Dyeing contest and the grand prize is a pair of tickets to an Ani show near you! (Some restrictions apply, free tickets are not available for festivals or special events). That’s right, just for expressing your inner most righteous babe in egg form you could win a free pair of tickets to see the Little Folksinger, what do you have to lose? But hurry, contest ends April 10th!
Think Ani’s not coming near you? Don’t be so sure! We’ve added lots of new Summer dates, from California to Baltimore, so check the tour page for the latest presale information and we’ll see you at the shows!
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3/20/2009
ROTHBURY FESTIVAL TICKETS ON SALE TODAYIt’s the first day of spring…which means it the perfect time to start planning for the summer music festival season!
Ani will be performing at the Rothbury Festival at the JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI on July 5, tickets go on sale today (click here). In addition to the little folksinger, the weekend fest (July 2 – 5) includes performances by The Dead, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, The String Cheese Incident and tons more performers to get your body moving in the sun! Check out the line up here.
Keep your eyes on the tour page in the coming weeks for more summer tour date announcements (including some more festivals and west coast dates) and hang in there…summer’s coming.
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3/19/2009
ANI TO PERFORM AT PETE SEEGER’S 90TH BIRTHDAY AT MADISON SQUARE GARDENSunday, May 3rd folk legend Pete Seeger turns 90 years old and there’s gonna be a huge sing-a-long at Madison Square Garden to celebrate!
Ani will be there, along with over 40 other great musicians including Pete Seeger (of course), Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder, John Mellencamp, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Ben Harper, Emmylou Harris…well you get the idea, so just head on over to seeger90.com to get the whole line up. This may not be a full Ani DiFranco live set (if it was this would be a 40 hour show…), but it’s bound to be a once in a lifetime music event that you won’t want to miss!
Tickets go on sale Monday, March 30 at Ticketmaster.com ticketmaster.com, all proceeds raised will go directly to The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, an environmental organization that Pete started back in 1966 to help clean up the Hudson River.
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3/16/2009
ANI DIFRANCO’S ARTIST’S DEN PREMIER ON NYC PUBLIC TELEVISIONAs we’ve previously reported, last July Ani and her band transformed the oldest art museum in America into a once in a lifetime concert venue - the setting was beautiful, the small, lucky crowd was exuberant and cameras were there to document the energy.
Tune in to the public television series “Live from the Artists Den” in March to see the private concert recorded in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Folks in the Big Apple can catch the premier on Thursday, March 19 at 10pm.
To watch a sneak peek and check local listings, visit
TheArtistsDen.com. |
3/5/2009
LISTEN TO ANI ON WNRNBefore hitting the stage in Charlottesville yesterday, Ani visited WNRN studios for an interview and performance. Burning questions are answered: Do we hear wedding bells? What’s going on in the lobby of Ani shows? What’s life like in New Orleans? Check out the latest news in the little folksinger’s life, not to mention an acoustic performance of Red Letter Year’s “Alla This”, and a brand new unrecorded song (which was banned in Singapore?) “Promiscuity”, by tuning tuning in here. And keep your eyes on YouTube for video from the interview to come. |
2/27/2009
TOSHI REAGON JOINS ANI ON MARCH TOURToshi Reagon is jumping on the March Tour bus in Asheville, NC as a special guest for the last half of Ani’s March tour! We just can’t say enough about Toshi’s incredible talent so instead of trying check out her videos on the Righteous Babe Records YouTube channel. Click here for tour dates and tickets.
This follows an appearance at Carnegie Hall (yup, THE Carnegie Hall) on March 4 for “Honor: Blues, Jazz Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Beyond” with Ashford & Simpson, Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte, Terence Blanchard, Vernon Reid and more. Tickets are available for the special event by clicking here.
On top of that, Toshi recently wrote original music and text for the all-female dance troupe, LAVA's latest show “we become” (you can still catch the end of their three weeks of performances by March 1 at the Brooklyn Lyceum). |
2/20/2009
LIVE ANI TRACK ON ARTISTS DEN CD COMPILATION Live from the Artists Den: 1 hit stores last Tuesday, featuring exclusive live tracks from the folks who will appear on the new public television series…this includes Ani, whose performance of “Present/Infant” was taken from the intimate concert filmed at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts last May. The CD also features Alanis Morissette, Aimee Mann and Ingrid Michaelson – check it out exclusively at Barnes & Noble and iTunes. For more information on ‘Live From the Artists Den’ public television series visit TheArtistsDen.com. |
2/10/2009
SINGING THROUGH THE HARD TIMES: A TRIBUTE TO UTAH PHILLIPSWho can’t relate to “Singing Through the Hard Times” these days? That is folk music, the passion of our friend Bruce “U. Utah” Phillips life, and we’re happy to bring this tribute, celebrating the songs that Utah sang and loved, to the people.
Artists including Emmylou Harris & Mary Black, Ani DiFranco, Pete Seeger and Rosalie Sorrels lend their voice to the two-disc collection – folksingers whose music springs from the same rich vein of the people’s history that Phillips chronicled throughout his life. Learn more, get a sneak preview and reserve your copy before it hits the stores February 24 by clicking here.
All proceeds from the sale of the album go directly to Utah’s family.
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2/6/2009
NEW SHOW IN INDY, SECOND SHOW ADDED IN DC!We just can’t keep those tour horses in the stables; Ani and the band have added two more dates in March and April!
Due to popular demand a second show has been added at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC on Saturday, March 7. This show will feature special guest Chad Stokes (State Radio, Dispatch).
The tour bus will move on down the line to Indianapolis on April 29 for a performance at the Murat Egyptian Room. Special guest in Indy will be the always rockin’, always hilarious, hardest workin’ man in show biz; Hamell on Trial.
Tickets for both shows are on sale now so
click here to get your seats. |
1/30/2009
PASTE EXPOSES THE OBJECT OF ANI'S AFFECTIONPaste Magazine starts the February 2009 feature story “Object of Their Affection” by recalling the 2006 Golden Globe speech of novelist Larry McMurtry (Brokeback Mountain):
“Instead of acknowledging the usual suspects—mom, dad, husband, wife, agent, stylist, Jesus, etc.—McMurtry made the following statement: ‘Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius.’"
Following this theme the story goes on to feature musicians and the loves of their lives – their favorite instruments.
Although Ani has a virtual army of guitars, she tells us about one of her favorites named "Smoky"—a gift from our very own fearless leader, Scot Fisher.
Be sure to check it out on newsstands—or on
Paste's Official Site. |
1/29/2009
STATE RADIO’S CHAD STOKES JOINS ANI’S MARCH TOURChad Stokes (State Radio, Dispatch) is joining the first half of Ani DiFranco’s March US tour as a special guest. Reading Chad’s bio seems to be giving me a bit of deja vu…let’s see; independently releasing albums, endless touring, building a grass roots following, socially conscious music, registering voters at shows…Welcome to the bus! Chad will be performing solo but be sure to check out his band, State Radio, here. |
1/21/2009
ANI’S LETTER TO OBAMA IN MS. MAGAZINEAs we celebrate the changing of the guard in DC, Ms. Magazine prepares to release its Winter 2009 issue featuring President Obama on the cover, with letters to our 44th President from dozens of feminist icons across the country. Ani’s voice is included in this list along side such influential women as actress Kathy Najimy, Kim Gandy (President, NOW), and Margaret Cho. Check it out on a news stand near you January 27. |
1/9/2009
NEW MARCH & APRIL ANI TOUR DATES!In the spirit of partying like its 2009, Ani is taking her band up and down the eastern United States this March and April (don’t worry west coast, she’ll get there) – and as part of our ‘don’t forget to have a good time’ resolution we invite you to get your tickets before the general public! Check out the tour page for the complete list of dates and pre-sales! |
1/6/2009
PBS IN SAN FRAN, NASHVILLE AND WV TO AIR LIVE AT BABEVILLE!More PBS Stations across the country are adding Ani’s Live at Babeville concert to their schedule for the New Year. On Jan 7 fans in San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose area can catch the show on KRCB; Charleston/Huntington, WV on WPBY; Bluefield/Beckley/Oak Hill, WV on WSWP; and Clarksburg/Weston, WV on WNPB. Fans in Nashville should tune into WCTE on Jan 14. Check your local listings for details! |
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