Rumors about Ani DiFranco

Please send any other juicy tidbits to marg@columbia.edu.

Ani will be performin Mon. June 21, at 7 PM on VH1's Hard Rock Live

Ani will be providing a voice on "King of The Hill" in the spring. She plays an angry rocker who tries to convince Peggy to become independent

Ani contributed the song "The Million You Never Made" to the sound track of a great Canadian film called "The Hanging Garden."

Ani has a cut on the soundtrack to "The Jackal."

"shameless" as was performed by ani d. on the conan o'brien show last spring, is available on a cd called "live from 6a: conan o'brien".

ani's new album is slated for a feb of 98 release.. it is going to be called little plastic castle

Ani has recorded "Wishin' and Hopin'" for the soundtrack to My Best Friend's Wedding.

The album comes out June 24!

the live cd is due out in april. a new song entitled "gravel" will feature. this song will also feature on her forthcoming studio album.

jen

Hey Marg,
My name is Scott and I have a rumor I would like to share about Ani. Actually its not a rumor, its true. I spoke to Gotee man (a sound guy who works with Ani) and he said she will have a double live CD out around Christmas time. Finally, a live CD of Ani that we can get our hands on!!!! Also look for a dance single of Joyful Girl. I dont like that idea, but if thats what Ani wants, I''ll live with it.

thanks,
Scott

Ani in Newport

As you may already know, Ani will be at the Ben & Jerry's Folk Festival - Newport this year on Saturday, Aug 10. The official site for the festival is at www.newportfolk.com and B & J has some info at www.benjerry.com/festival/newp96.html where they have set a link to your ANI page. Cheers! Dan

Ani Moving to Toronto?

I hear Ani is moving to Toronto for the month of january...

Andy Stochansky's Album

ANI'S OH-SO-DREAMY DRUMMER ANDY STOCHANSKY HAS JUST RELEASED AN AMAZING CD THAT IS EVEN MORE DREAMY THAN HE IS. IT'S CALLED "WHILE YOU SLEPT" AND HE HAS BEEN SELLING IT ON TOUR WITH ANI. IF YOU ARE GOING TO AN ANI SHOW SOON YOU HAVE TO GET A COPY OF THIS ALBUM. YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW GOOD IT IS. NO GUFF!

LOVE FROM ONE OF ANI'S BIGGEST FANS

MICHAEL

Ani at Telluride

Thu, 22 Jun 95 10:39:40

I was at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, where Ani played twice: First in the 8:00 time slot on Thursday night, and for free the next afternoon in a little square called Elks Park, where she answered questions and played a slew of requests despite bitter cold and a stiff wind (makes them lee-press-on-nails mighty cold). Both shows were packed.

Of course, "Not A Pretty Girl" sold out immediately after her Thursday show so I didn't get a copy. But the crowd was wowed and amazed. She talked a little bit about her alternative guitar tunings (she called one tuning "Herb") and independence in music and folk music in general. She also explained why she is so prolific: She said she forgets her own songs so fast that she has to write more to keep up. In her word, "some people say it's creativity, but it's actually just senility."

I did hear a rumor that she was recording the Thursday show for a live album. The festival folks recorded the whole weekend for a live CD too. Who knows?

Live CD - Bremen

• Remember when I said the show in Bremen was recorded? Well, there is a live CD of ani out - but only in Germany! ani is actually very dissatisfied with the sound, she doesn't like the way her guitar sounds, feels it is out of tune. And she was nervous, which is true, I was there.
• She will be recording one of her live shows in the next couple of weeks, she is planning a live album for the US.
• And she goes into the studio in December to do her next album.

Wayne Tvedt writes (with a correction and price information from Phil Nutting ):

The CD of the 8.7.1994 Bremen show is part of the "women in (e)motion" series (TM-105) from Tradition & Moderne:

Tradition & Moderne
Musikproduktion
Kepler St 28
28203 Bremen
(0421) 7 49 56
(0421) 7 88 70 (fax)

The price is 30 DM + shipping. International money order is ok.

I'm not dissatisfied with the sound at all. very much worth getting.

Here's the word from Ani's Agent

As Ani's agent, I've been asked on behalf of Righteous Babe Records 
to explain the reason why the Live German CD is not available for sale 
in the U.S.

The basic reason is Ani was not happy with the recording (don't ask me 
why), and requested that it was not be made available over here.  Since 
Ani runs her own label by choice, she has had her stamp on all aspects 
of the recordings, but not so with the German release.

RBR requests that you try not to have record stores import or 
special order the CD. RBR has specifically requested that stores 
not carry the CD.

Thanks for your help on this.


Lawrence

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