As of 2021, Ani DiFranco's husband is Michael Napolitano. Cracking jokes between songs, flashing her joyful, wide-eyed grin, and talking to her audience as if theyre old friends, DiFranco remains a true folksinger in spirit, even though her music spans many genres, including pop, rock, jazz, funk, blues, hip hop, and spoken word. Recently DiFranco began playing vintage guitars onstagemostly Gibsonsbecause you can have a conversation on a level that you cant necessarily have with a guitar that doesnt have a soul yet. Photo by Richard Herron. In an interview on September 13, 2012, DiFranco mentioned that she was pregnant with her second child. In 1998, she married sound engineer Andrew Gilchrist in a Unitarian Universalist service in Canada, overseen by folk singer Utah Phillips. When you picked the guitar back up and started writing songs in different tunings, were you using a tuner? On September 11, 2001, DiFranco was in Manhattan and later penned the poem "Self Evident" about the experience. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. In 2009, DiFranco appeared at Pete Seeger's 90th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden, debuting her revamped version of the 1930s labor anthem "Which Side Are You On?" Im pretty excited about Play God, because I feel like feminism is the answerfor all of us. And her former road manager, Susan Elsner, is a board member of the Nuclear Information Resource Center and is a civil society liaison for the United Nations. Which to me, after almost 40 years, is a welcome challenge. In 2008, she donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami. 2013. In September 1995, DiFranco participated in a concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio, inaugurating the opening of the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York City. She is a Libra and he is a N/A. And feminism is the way that we address patriarchy. Honestly, how many of us would be able to look our optimistic teenage selves in the eye and not feel like we have a lot of explaining to do? DiFranco supports many social and political movements by performing benefit concerts, appearing on benefit albums and speaking at rallies. Later, she relocated to New York City, where she took poetry classes at The New School and toured vigorously for the next 15 years, essentially pausing briefly only to record albums. Delaware North scores with billboard with Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka, well, you know Buffalo singer Matt Wilson featured in 'American Idol' on Sunday, Buffalo singer Matt Wilson moves on to Round 1 of 'American Idol', Erik Brady: Most see Johannes Vermeer's genius on gallery walls. [67], During the 2004 presidential primaries, she supported liberal, anti-war Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who appeared on stage with her during several of her concerts. So when I could feel the band come alive, thats when I knew that I was in the zone. [21] And then when I overdubbed, I was trying to get myself back to that moment. And there are those who feel she is somehow betraying her art if she writes the occasional love song instead of keeping it all-political-all-the-time. : United States Executive summary: Bisexual folk/punk icon. Because the band is playing off of me, live. Receive the latest in local entertainment news in your inbox weekly! A new touring ensemble consisting of Jason Mercer on bass, Julie Wolf on keyboards, and Daren Hahn on drums, augmented at times by a horn section, accompanied DiFranco on tour between 1998 and 2002.[18]. But this guitar, the GibsMarteverybody that comes through this studio records on it now. So Ive come to a place in my life where I just want to work with people who bring it, and I dont want to say a thing. I never, ever got onstage and, you know, put on a show or decided on a persona or decided Im going to play the role of. I was just like, This is what Ive got. The job is total honesty. It includes collaborations with Pete Seeger, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville, Skerik, Adam Levy, Righteous Babe recording artist Anas Mitchell, CC Adcock, and a host of New Orleans-based horn players known for their work in such outfits as Galactic, Bonerama, and Rebirth Brass Band. ), She confesses with a grin that being a mother has slowed her down quite a bit, though acknowledges that she is finding inner peace for the first time in my life. She reflects this new sense of stability best in the funky cool dissonance of Which Sides Unworry. Its a cautious step into the alien world of calmer waters and a lesson from folks in her adopted hometown not to question a good thing when she finally finds it: They teach me to unworry/ I will teach you to unhide/ in the city where they dont need x-rays/ to see each others insides.. And thats the natural law. Three decades later, now a wife and mother in the far away city of New Orleans, I suspect that this Buffalo girl sometimes sees her teenage self smiling back at her from the mirror and it is in that smile that she has found a bridge to the kind of peace that shes always longed for. Its my backup singers. We do want universal healthcare. If he really felt, in this arena of dragons and monsters, that he had the force of the people behind him, hed be more empowered to act in the way that we want him to act. [37] Yeah. She was living by herself, having moved out of her mother's apartment after she became an emancipated minor when she was 15.[16]. And Jenny Scheinman [violin] and Ivan Neville [organ, clavinet, bass, piano, Rhodes, and Wurlitzer] are both amazing musicians. On the other side of that coin, there are those in her tribe whose behavior can be quite dark at times. But I dont always succeed. For live shows, I use an Audix OM5. I think religion serves a lot of different purposes in people's lives, and I can recognize the value of that, you know, the value of ceremony, the value of community, or even just having a forum to get together and talk about ideas, about morals that's a cool concept. Ani DiFranco is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. Her records could then be found in large and small record stores alike. (DiFranco and husband Mike Napolitanos daughter is now 5 years old. So it makes delegating excruciatingly easy. Also in 2011 she duetted with Greg Dulli on the Twilight Singers record Dynamite Steps.[53]. This concept of transition and rebirth extends darkly through the powerful album closer, Zoo, in which she talks about daily realities of American life that encourage selfdestructive behavior: from the spiritual blight of harmful television programming ( I can no longer watch TV cuz that shit really melts my brain ), down to her own past insecurities ( I walk past my old self-loathing like I walk past animals in the zoo/ trying not to really see them in a prison they did not choose ). Ellis Paul's got Woody Guthrie under his skin. If he were to throw his weight around like George W. did, there would be a very different reaction. The organization provides free marching band instruction to children in the New Orleans area in addition to academic tutoring and mentoring. No. And by the time I learned chords, I was already hooked. But such chatter fails to appreciate DiFrancos creative wandering for what it is: a product of ongoing maturity and a life well lived. Theyre like, Put down the phone, Ani! [Laughs.] [76], Scot Fisher, formerly Righteous Babe label president and DiFranco's manager for many years, has been a longtime advocate of the preservation movement in Buffalo. DiFranco has occasionally joined with Prince in discussing publicly the problems associated with major record companies. Ani DiFranco attended Buffalo Academy of Visual and Ani DiFranco attended Buffalo State College, Ani DiFranco attended New School for Social Research, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. Father: Dante DiFranco (d. 2005) Mother: Elizabeth Ross Brother: Ross DiFranco Husband: . DiFranco performs there at 8 p.m. Wednesday, with Anais Mitchell opening. And what are a few of your favorite things about being on the road? Ani DiFranco, best known for being a Folk Singer, was born in Buffalo, New York, USA on Wednesday, September 23, 1970. And its not that the masculine sensibility is bad or wrong, its just that on its own, it will create disease., As I raise a clearly dude-affiliated eyebrow at this last bit, she smiles and adds, Just the same as a female [sensibility] on its own Ive been to enough womens music festivals to see the problems of matriarchy, you know?, She laughs and continues, Im trying to laugh about the unexplored reality of, what if female sensibilities dominated since the dawn of time in all aspects of society? The mosh pit is probably still eighteen and still female, but the audience in the room will be all kinds of people and even all kinds of ages, which I love. But for one little drop of some chemical that I dont even understand thats me, you know? How were you drawn to tenor guitars? Ive made so many records and its happened in all different ways. There, she took poetry classes at The New School, where she met poet Sekou Sundiata, who was to become a friend and mentor. Well, these days Im gigging a lot less, because of my kids. Prince recorded two songs with DiFranco in 1999, "Providence" on her To the Teeth album, and "Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore" on Prince's Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic album. I think when I was younger I hadnt yet learned that for someone youre working with to try and be in the moment, while also trying to do that thing you told them you wanted to hear, is a conflict. My first cassette tape had an address on it and thats how I first started touring, says Ani DiFranco. And from there, I just started messin with it. Its like this rabbit hole of lack of relationship. Fender Champ (studio), Effects Its just the best job ever. And when I picked it back up, I had forgotten most of what Id learned. [The late musician was DiFrancos childhood guitar teacher and made one album for her label.] I think its a 1960s LG kind of thing. [3] She has released more than 20 albums. Mother of Private While primarily an acoustic guitarist she has used a variety of instruments and styles: brass instrumentation was prevalent in 1998's Little Plastic Castle; a simple walking bass in her 1997 cover of Hal David and Burt Bacharach's "Wishin' and Hopin'"; strings on the 1997 live album Living in Clip and 2004's Knuckle Down; and electronics and synthesizers in 1999's To the Teeth and 2006's Reprieve. After all, the Occupy movement is more about wresting the democratic process away from corporate money interests and putting it back into the hands of the American people whats more patriotic than that? So [Lifeboat] is sort of about me, and its a little bit of an extrapolation of this person is me, you know?. Ani DiFranco Popularity . A lot of us pick up the guitar and play the same chords or the same rhythm and we get bored. It really is a privilege. In an interview on September 13, 2012, DiFranco mentioned that she is pregnant with her second child with husband Mike Napolitano. DiFranco owned the Bidwell Parkway house for 20 years, but a lot of that time was also spent between Buffalo and New Orleans, where she had an apartment before she and future husband Mike Napolitano bought a house about eight years ago. People. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Cartomancer J Family (1) Spouse The poem was featured in the book It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11. Well [grabs a guitar], I bought this Gibson a little while ago in my quest to find new old guitars. What is special to you about Binary? With her favorite guitars and songwriting journal by her side, we talked about Binary her 19th studio album on her own Righteous Babe Recordssongwriting, and all things guitar. [35] In April 2013, she gave birth to her second child, a son. Samples from the track "Coming Up" were used by DJ Spooky in his album Live Without Dead Time, produced for AdBusters Magazine in 2003. [56] Zango and Goldenrod, two music distributors specializing in women's music, started carrying DiFranco's music. If its below 40 degrees, he thinks its a blizzard, Fisher laughed. It's an attitude, it's an awareness of one's heritage, and it's a community. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated DiFranco's newly adopted home town of New Orleans, she collected donations from fans around the world through The Righteous Babe Store website for the Katrina Piano Fund,[73] helping musicians replace instruments lost in the hurricane, raising over $47,500 for the cause. [28] In 1998, she married her sound engineer Andrew Gilchrist[29] in a Unitarian Universalist service in Canada. Ive had the pleasure of playing with them more over the last few years, and so I roped the two of them into the core of this record, too. It was a nightmare for me but that is what it takes to create life and a whole other manifestation of joy and creativity., The first line of the albums opener, Lifeboat, begins with a confession, albeit one thats a bit tongue-in-cheek: Every time I open my mouth, I take off my clothes.. And thats the same tuning for Alrighty. And Even More is in DADGAC. So now I play some old Gibsons, even onstage. The album Long Time Gone was released on Righteous Babe Records in 2020 after ten years in the making. Tuning and re-tuning in front of an audience can add a whole extra level of stress. DiFrancos philanthropic reach extends locally as well. . Iconoclastic contemporary folk singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco grew up in Buffalo, but has called New Orleans home for the past 14 years. Her manager, Scott Fisher who has worked with the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Innocence Project is deeply involved in anti-death penalty causes. On May 7, 2019, DiFranco released a memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, via Viking Books. And it gets really hard to sing over because you have this complex chord and then its like, What note sounds right? Very few! [17], In 1996, bassist Sara Lee joined the touring group, whose live rapport is showcased on the 1997 album Living in Clip. Like a dad. By 14 she was writing her own songs. In 2011, she appeared on Rob Wasserman's album Note of Hope, an exploration of the writings of Woody Guthrie with musical accompaniment, though the track in which she appeared, "Voice", was actually recorded 13 years earlier. Amps Robicheau, Paul. [66] During her travels she met with then-detained resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Ani DiFranco has always done things her way, and for this Tiny Desk (home) concert, she's a one-woman team, filming and recording herself in the front hall of her New Orleans home and studio, Big . While most are her own, she has also collaborated with Utah Phillips on two albums. Many of her songs are concerned with contemporary social issues such as racism, sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights, poverty, and war. [78], Musical collaborations, cover versions, and samples. DiFranco has stated that "folk music is not an acoustic guitar that's not where the heart of it is. DiFranco also sits on the board for The Roots of Music,[75] founded by Rebirth Brass Band drummer Derrick Tabb. Can you give us a few examples of alternate tunings that you used on this particular record? More about Ani Difranco and Michael Napolitano This is an artist looking back at her own life in wide-eyed whirly wonder, intrigued by the un-likeliness of it all, and processing it all through the still-fresh lens of motherhood. DiFranco graduated from the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts high school at 16 and began attending classes at Buffalo State College. She is from United States. Lift every veil that you havethe ones you know you have and then the ones you dont know you have. July 3, 2007. at her Buffalo home on January 20, 2007. Ive explored every plausible open tuning and thenthis is my new open tuning: D#ADGBD#. It just makes them taller, she says. If shes critical of Obamas lack of tangible changes and policies, then shes equally critical of citizens complacency toward that inaction. The song relates her own life experiences through the eyes of an anonymous homeless woman who feels isolated in the midst of many ( This park bench is a lifeboat and the rest a big dark sea ), but by the second verse, you begin to sense that the message of the song goes well beyond herself. So what does Sabres GM Kevyn Adams do this week? James O'Hara; Created . Early in her career DiFranco worked with manager Dale Anderson, a writer for the Buffalo News, who started another record label called Hot Wings Records, after the two parted ways, that released similar sounding material. Balance, in fact, is peace. She performed a cover of Pink Floyd's and Roger Waters' "Comfortably Numb" for Dar Williams' album. And I feel like I haven't seen my daughter since he was born. Sister of Private. As is her way as a lyricist, DiFranco manages to make a powerful statement with just a few well-chosen words, and, as metaphors go, there probably isnt any better way to describe the lifestyle of intense exposure and vulnerability that she has made for herself during the years. You cant start with imbalance and end with peace.. [40] Living in Clip, DiFranco's 1998 double live album, is the only one to achieve gold record status to date. Im lucky! And Im so happy that I get to bring that out again with me. With more than 20 albums, some hitting No. In 1999, she created her own not-for-profit organization; as the Buffalo News has reported, "Through the Righteous Babe Foundation, DiFranco has backed various grassroots cultural and political organizations, supporting causes ranging from abortion rights to gay visibility."[60]. In 1989, DiFranco started her own record company, Righteous Records. comes after an unprecedented three year pause in what has otherwise been a career defined largely by its frenetic pace. Because DiFranco and her husband producer, engineer and musician Mike Napolitano are raising their two children, time to write is . Also in 2002 she recorded a duet with Jackie Chan of the Irving Gordon song "Unforgettable" for a record of unlikely collaborations, When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear. Well, somebody showed me DADGAD, probably Michael. And to empower women, you have to have reproductive freedom! For roughly 25 years, DiFranco has been writing songs perfectly in line with the motives of the recent Occupy Wall Street movement decades before protestors erected the first tent at Zuccotti Park. Connections were made when women in colleges started duplicating and sharing tapes. [28][39] DiFranco herself has received criticism for planning a 2013 songwriting retreat at Nottoway, a former slave plantation,[28][27] and wrote that she "[sympathized] with both sides" regarding the controversial trans-exclusionary policies of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Her husband is Mike Napoli tano (m. 2009), Andrew Gilchrist (m. 1998-2003) Ani DiFranco Net Worth Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Although it is hard to imagine a longtime DiFranco fan who is not accustomed to the frequent twists and turns that have shaped such a long and unusual career, there are those who seem to wish that shed freeze at a particular age and never move forward, to act as a sort of musical pet who may not stray from the service of a particular emotional need. I didnt want to pick up girls or be famous or whatever the usual motivations are. [8], DiFranco released a memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, on May 7, 2019, via Viking Books[9] and made The New York Times Best Seller list. It just really translates well. Boyfriend: Mike Napolitano (music producer, one daughter) Daughter: Petah Lucia (b. Recently married to Mike Napolitano, her long-time engineer and the father of her 5-year-old daughter, DiFranco's new writing exhibits a profound self-acceptance. If youre standing on the higher ground all by yourself with nobody to talk to, its not gonna work, she says. Theres too much going on. Im intimate with all kinds of corners of the world, all over the place. So even after 37 years of playing guitar can you still just turn your tuners and put yourself in a new place? She released her debut, self-titled album in 1990. Should any part of my music offend you, please do not close your ears to it. She was without her family two children, ages 8 and 2, and her husband, Mike Napolitano who are back home in New Orleans. You would see much different diseases. During the first Gulf War, DiFranco participated in the anti-war movement. Once you get to the place that I got to I dont think Ill ever return to that pre-injury state. Basically, young women at colleges would get a tape and write to that address and say, Can she come play?. [Laughs.]. Two years prior to their wedding, DiFranco gave birth to the couple's first child, Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano. And when she speaks of the new home that she has made with her family, her eyes sparkle with a child-like wonder that she wears very well. Do you feel that way? The C on the topthats been my new jam for a while now. 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[4] She released her self-titled debut album in the winter of 1990, shortly after relocating to New York City. Later in the day, Ani played a few songs on the main stage in front of the Capitol, including "Your Next Bold Move". Its a total sickness [laughs]. Lets see [flips through songwriting journal]. This was the 1960s and not until the 1990s did I fi, The former Buffalo Bills guard was part of one of my scariest experiences as a sports writer and one of the most moving stories Ive covered a, This summer, after two years of operating Southern Junction as a takeout-only spot at 27 Chandler St., Ryan Fernandez is planning to open his . Just drop them all and be naked. . In 2010, DiFranco played Persephone on Anas Mitchell's album Hadestown. Ani Difranco was previously married to Andrew Gilchrist (1998 2004). Michael Napolitano, Ani DiFranco's husband The American 52-year-old folk singer is married to Michael Napolitano now, according to our records. Do you have any tricks for when youre experiencing this sort of thing? In 2008, she appeared on Todd Sickafoose's album Tiny Resisters. 26/02/2023 03h43 | If youre standing on the higher ground all by yourself with nobody to talk to, its not gonna work, she says. The release of DiFrancos new album Which Side Are You On? How did that song come about? AKA Angela Marie DiFranco. I wanted a chorale thing, meaning voices that were not just singing backup. Mike Napolitano - and I still make each . Im just writing about my life, she says. Have you unintentionally become a Gibson girl? I do that too. So I learned single-note pieces from these books before I learned chords. But open tunings! In January 2007 DiFranco gave birth to her first child, a daughter,[33][34] at her Buffalo home. Its blonde, and I believe its an LG, and its also an early 60s kind of model. Its very much an expression that we make togetherwe interpret the songs together. For those keeping track, the record's timeline actually spans the months between August 29, 2005,. Wife of Private In 2010, after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, she performed at the "For Our Coast" benefit concert joining Marianne Faithfull, C.C. Adcock and others at the Acadiana Center for the Arts Theater in Lafayette, raising money for Gulf Aid Acadiana, and the Gulf Aid show with Lenny Kravitz, Mos Def, and others at Mardi Gras World River City in New Orleans, both shows raising money to help protect the wetlands, clean up the coast and to assist the fishermen and their families affected by the spill.[74]. But theres a lot of hum issues when youre doing this. Keep reading with unlimited digital access. Rivera Sedona 15" speaker combo (live) She married her first husband, Andrew Gilchrist, in 1998. . My core band, Todd [Sickafoose, bass] and Terence [Higgins, drums], are just super uplifting musical souls. Michael Napolitano and Ani DiFranco have been married for 13 years. Although much of DiFranco's material is autobiographical, it is often also strongly political. And I used to ice my arms because I was told by a doctor to do that. Is this still your approach, and how do you do that all in one take? I have that kind of relationship with everyone on this record. And its so reassuring to me, to be out there talking to people all the time and go this is America. And traveling these daysIm so struck anew by how kind people are. Matt Wilson, 21, will audition for judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan on the reality show now in its 21st season. [22] DiFranco has written and performed many spoken-word pieces throughout her career and was showcased as a poet on the HBO series Def Poetry in 2005.[23]. As I get older, I understand more that peace is a product of balance. This close-up solo performance from the January 2017 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, puts the spotlight on Ani DiFrancos extraordinarily percussive right-hand technique as she plays Binary, the title track from her new album, on her Alvarez MSD1 short-scale dreadnought. [65], In 2004, DiFranco visited Burma in order to learn about the Burmese resistance movement and the country's fight for democracy. Ani DiFranco remains relatively quiet when it comes to sharing her personal life and makes it a point to stay out of the public eye. Kelsey O'Hara. But Alvarez has been so gracious with me over the years. I feel like I was blessed early on, with having no goal. I mean, check this out [grabs the guitar and starts tuning it by ear]. [77], DiFranco is also a member of the Toronto-based charity Artists Against Racism for which she participated in a radio PSA. And, as a woman who has had to overcome an awful lot of obstacles in the male-dominated music industry, DiFranco feels empathetic about Obamas status as the first black president. They began dating sometime in 2005. When you record, do you track vocals and guitar at the same time? Well, I'm not a religious person myself. Its the tuning from Not a Pretty Girl and some other older songs I wanted to put back in the set., Ive explored every plausible open tuning and thenthis is my new open tuning: D#ADGBD#. There were a lot of years there where it did become a grind, and I wasnt as closely in touch with the thrill of it, or the privilege of it. In 2010, she co-produced a track with Margaret Cho called "Captain Cameltoe" for the comedian's Cho Dependant album. In 2006, she produced Hamell on Trial's album Songs for Parents Who Enjoy Drugs. It always happens after the fact. In general they sold music to independent music stores and women's book stores. Who Is Ani DiFranco's Husband? [37], DiFranco has described herself as an atheist. It's an attitude, it's an awareness of one's heritage, and it's a community. Lucky for me, Ive been in this game long enough and Ive met some amazing people. She keeps her soul in fighting shape by surrounding herself with fellow activists. Over a career spanning nearly four decades, DiFranco has built a large, loyal fan base. Just drop them all and be naked. Photo by Jordi Vidal, Zizzing is in a tuning I revived from years ago. daughter, Petah Lucia, weighting 7 lbs, 8 oz, on January 20, 2007. It was later also featured in Verses, a book of her poetry published in the U.S. by Seven Stories press. She developed a deep association with folksinger and social activist Utah Phillips throughout the mid-1990s, sharing her stage and her audience with the older musician until his death in 2008 and resulting in two collaborative albums: The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (1996) and Fellow Workers (1999, with liner notes by Howard Zinn). 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