UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 38, Page 4
August 3, 1995
Ani DiFranco tix on sale Aug. 14

     Ani DiFranco, known for her staggering blend of folk and punk
music, will appear at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 13, in Mitchell Hall.
     Called a "one-woman acoustic punk band" by Now Magazine in
Toronto, DiFranco says her career was launched "somewhere in the
interim between Woody Guthrie's 'Pastures of Plenty' and MTV's
'Unplugged.' "
     In addition to her unique sound and style, DiFranco's
individuality extends to the business side of her career, as well. She
has consistently rejected offers from major record labels and instead
started her own record company, Righteous Babe Records, which has sold
more than 100,000 tapes and CDs. With complete artistic control,
DiFranco writes and publishes her own songs and produces her own
recordings. She also creates the artwork for them.
     Reared in Buffalo, N.Y., DiFranco started playing Beatles songs
in local bars at the age of 9 and was writing her own material at l5.
By age l8, she had played "every bar in Buffalo a gazillion times" and
moved to New York City, where she has produced six albums in five
years.
     "DiFranco's songs and her singing are righteous indeed, boldly
addressing a variety of social and sexual issues," a reviewer in The
New Yorker wrote.
     "Ani DiFranco doesn't just get mad; she gets invigorated. Her
songs are manifestos and conversations, delivered with a buoyant grin,
rapid-fire guitar strumming and articulation that might impress a
rapper..." a critic in The New York Times said.
     Her CDs and tapes include Out of Range, likeisaid, Puddle Drive,
imperfectly, Not So Soft and Ani DiFranco.
     Tickets for DiFranco's UD appearance, which go on sale Aug. 14,
are $5 for the general public and $3 for University faculty, staff and
students. Tickets will be available at the Bob Carpenter Center and
the Perkins Student Center box offices.
     The concert is sponsored by the Commission on the Status of
Women, the Office of Residence Life, the Office of Women's Affairs and
the UD Performing Arts Series.
     For more information, call UD1-HENS or the Office of Women's
Affairs at 831-8063.