The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a fixture in the New Orleans musical landscape. On October 3 Ani DiFranco, Alan Toussaint, Beats Antique, Alexander Ebert (and more to be announced) join them for a benefit gala at the Civic Theatre to support the outreach and...
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The little folksinger and her band are making sure their passports are ready for a European Tour this September. Tickets for all shows go on sale to the public on Friday, June 20. For the first time in years Ani will take the show to...
Have you guys checked out Esperanza Spalding’s new video for “We Are America”? It delivers a pretty powerful message and it’s damn catchy. Plus if you stick around to the 4:44 mark-you can catch Ani looking bad ass. So crank up your awful computer speakers...
Ani wrote a little something about the lessons she learned from Pete Seeger on the Wall Street Journal blog. We are attaching a excerpt below. If you would like to read it in it's entirety please go here. "I once watched him do a press...
Our friends and neighbors to the north at the University of Winnipeg present the little folksinger with an Honorary Doctorate of Letters this Friday, November 22. The Honorary Doctor of Letters is conferred upon those who have made a significant contribution to the Arts and Humanities....
This past September Ani and her band took the Clay Center stage in Charleston, WV to record the 800th Episode of NPR’s Mountain Stage with Larry Groce along with Red Baraat, Dave Mason and Dawes. The resulting show will air throughout the week starting Friday,...
Ani will be presented with the 2013 Winnipeg Folk Festival Artistic Achievement Award at their gala fundraiser, Folk Festival in the City, on November 22. The award is presented annually to a past Winnipeg Folk Festival performer who has made exceptional contributions to folk music...
