(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Folk-rock singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco – along with Bruce Springsteen and David Byrne, one of the greatest entertainers of our time – will perform at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at 8pm. Singer-songwriter Eric Himan will warm up the crowd for DiFranco.
After 20 years in the music biz, self-described “Little Folksinger” Ani DiFranco is still technically little, although her influence on fellow musicians, activists, and indie-minded people the world over has been huge. She still proudly identifies as a folksinger, too, but her understanding of that term has always been far more expansive than a bin at the record store or a category on iTunes, with ample room for soul, funk, jazz, electronic music, spoken word, and a marching band or two. Over the course of more than 20 albums, including the live double CD Living in Clip (1997) and the two-disc career retrospective Canon (2007), as well as the latest one, Which Side are You On? (2012), DiFranco has never stopped evolving, experimenting, testing the limits of what can be said and sung.
Her lifelong tribe of co-conspirators includes everyone from the late Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips to a new generation of twentysomething singer-songwriters who grew up with her songs and shows – and then there’s the motley crew of folks like Prince, Maceo Parker, Andrew Bird, Dr. John, Arto Lindsay, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck D, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Gillian Welch, Cyndi Lauper, and even Burmese activist and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, with whom she has crossed paths in a myriad of ways.
Tickets to Ani DiFranco are $29 to $79. The Mahaiwe is located at 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Box office hours are Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6:00pm and three hours before show times. A limited number of $15 tickets are available for patrons ages 30 and younger to all Mahaiwe-presented performances through the Mahaiwe ArtSmart Tix program. For tickets and information, visit the Mahaiwe or call 413.528.0100.