Ani DiFranco Concerts Tickets

Folk-rock revolutionary and Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco has been a fixture of the singer-songwriter scene since the 1990s. Her frank, poetic, confessional music has touched the ears and hearts of listeners worldwide as she has tackled diverse subjects from intimate relationships to social change, unafraid to speak with raw honesty. Seen by some as a feminist icon, her music spans genres and speaks volumes.

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ABOUT ANI DIFRANCO

Ani DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, and began performing at the age of nine, playing Beatles covers in bars and busking with her guitar teacher. By 14, she was writing her own songs, performing them at bars and coffee houses throughout her teens. Having become an emancipated minor and begun living by herself at age 15, when attending  Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts high school, she went on to study at Buffalo State College.

CAREER

At the age of 19, DiFranco started her own record label, Righteous Babe Records. In 1990, she moved to New York City, releasing her self-titled debut album that winter. Upon her arrival in NYC, she enrolled at The New School, taking poetry classes, where she met friend, mentor, and poet Sekou Sundiata. This was the beginning of 15 years of non-stop touring, recording, and releasing albums for DiFranco. She began touring solo and also as a duo with Canadian drummer Andy Stochansky in the early and mid-1990s. In September 1995, DiFranco was invited to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio, inaugurating the opening of the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York City. The concert featured artists including DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Indigo Girls, Dave Pirner, Tim Robbins, and Bruce Springsteen, and was recorded and released as a live album on Righteous Babe Records. 100% of the albums proceeds went to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum educational department.

Bassist Sara Lee joined the touring group in 1996 and in 1998, Stochansky left the band in order to pursue a solo career. Between 1998 and 2002, DiFranco’s touring band consisted of Jason Mercer on bass, Julie Wolf on keyboards, and Daren Hahn on drums,  and often also featured a horn section.

Throughout the 1990s, DiFranco’s profile rose. She was featured on the cover of magazines including Spin, Ms., and Magnet, among others, and had appearances on MTV and VH1. Her music was featured in movies and in 1998 she guest starred on an episode of the Fox sitcom King of the Hill, as the voice of Peggy's feminist guitar teacher, Emily.

In 1999, Righteous Babe Records began releasing albums by other artists including Sara Lee, Sekou Sundiata, Arto Lindsay, Bitch, and Animal, That One Guy, Utah Phillips, Hamell on Trial, Andrew Bird, Kurt Swinghammer, Buddy Wakefield, Anaïs Mitchell, and Nona Hendryx.

DiFranco wrote a poem, Self-Evident, about her experience of being in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. The poem was featured in the book It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11 and Self-Evident also became the title of her first book of poetry. The poem was also featured in Verses, a book of her poetry published in the U.S. by Seven Stories Press. In 2005, DiFranco was showcased as a poet on the HBO series Def Poetry.

Her touring band and recordings have featured bass player Todd Sickafoose and various other musicians such as Allison Miller, Andy Borger, Herlin Riley, and Terence Higgins on drums and Mike Dillon on percussion and vibes since the release of her 2005 album Knuckle Down.

A two-disc compilation entitled Canon, a retrospective of her career, was released on September 11, 2007. Just over one year later, she released her 16th studio album, Red Letter Day. DiFranco appeared at Pete Seeger's 90th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden in 2009, where she duetted with Kris Kristofferson and Bruce Cockburn.

 ¿Which Side Are You On?, an album featuring collaborations with Pete Seeger, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville, Skerik, Adam Levy, Righteous Babe recording artist Anaïs Mitchell, CC Adcock, and New Orleans-based horn players from outfits such as Galactic, Bonerama, and Rebirth Brass Band, was released in January 2012.

Her 18th album, Allergic to Water, was released in 2014 and its follow-up, Binary, was released in 2017.

DiFranco released a memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, via Viking Books on May 7, 2019. Her most recent album, Revolutionary Love, was released in 2021. It was largely inspired by Valarie Kaur's book See No Stranger.

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