Ani DiFranco with Special Guest Joy Clark

Ani DiFranco with Special Guest Joy Clark
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Location The Center for the Arts
Price $47-67
Phone 530-274-8384
Email lsrouji@thecenterforthearts.org
Type of Event Music
Venue The Center for the Arts
Event Location Center for the Arts
City/Area Grass Valley
Online Tickets Click here
Age Range All Ages

These days, every artist’s album needs to have a story. The music can’t speak for itself.

But after 22 records, why can’t Ani DiFranco’s work speak for itself? Yes, her forthcoming album is shaped by stories — ones about reproductive freedom, the double-edged sword of the pandemic, identity and ever-evolving belief systems that have shaped each of its 11 songs. There are songs that were written in 2011 and in 2022; some for musicals, others for children’s books. The album isn’t linear, but it is inherently teeming with DiFranco’s spirit.

It was paramount to the folk-feminist hero that listeners not be saddled with preconceived notions while diving into her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t. “I believe there is a rhyme and a reason as to why these songs have come together in this way now and I want people to experience this album as a journey, a piece of art, without being influenced by a cacophony of surrounding narratives.”