About this Event
Grammy-winning musician Ani DiFranco explores her creativity, spirituality, and evolving consciousness in conversation with coauthor Lauren Coyle Rosen.
The Spirit of Ani is a captivating journey of intimate reflections with Ani DiFranco, a pathbreaking, highly original artist of our time. In this powerful collaborative work, the legendary folk-rock star and feminist icon is in conversation with author, artist, and cultural anthropologist Lauren Coyle Rosen. In these exchanges, Ani is remarkably open about her creativity, spirituality, personal experiences, and evolving consciousness. She is vulnerable and unapologetic, offering an unprecedented window into her fiercely prolific journeys.
Expanding on themes from her best-selling memoir, Ani also offers fascinating reflections on contemporary popular culture—ranging from gender and queer politics, to the music industry in the virtual age, to climate change. The book includes previously unpublished photographs and journal entries, song-birth sheets, paintings, and the lyrics for some of her most treasured songs. The coauthors explore how Ani’s music and art are profoundly tied to her experiences of the interconnectedness of all consciousness and tuning in to receive creative inspiration. Ani’s striking openness produces a book that is both meditative and activating. This is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the dedication, intuition, and vision that drive Ani’s lifelong journey of creating art that not only reflects, but also empowers, transforms, and heals.
ANI DiFRANCO is a Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter and musician who has released twenty-three albums, traversing genres and addressing a range of autobiographical, political, and social issues. She is widely considered a feminist icon, and created her own record label, Righteous Babe Records, in 1990. She regularly releases new music, and continues her decades-long career as a major touring artist. DiFranco released a collection of poems and paintings titled Verses in 2007. Her memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, was a New York Times bestseller, and she is the author of two children’s books, The Knowing and Show Up and Vote. In 2024, she completed a five-month run on Broadway in the role of Persephone in Hadestown.
“For a lot of people, Ani DiFranco’s music might be emblematic of a certain time—of clove cigarettes and coffee shops, dorm rooms and Doc Martens. But that hasn’t stopped her from continuing to develop herself and her sound . . . Aside from her new album—which she recorded with BJ Burton, making this only the second record in almost thirty-five years that she didn’t self-produce—she’s currently starring on Broadway as the goddess Persephone in Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown . . . She is still a ball of energy at fifty-three, her eyes as piercing as they were on the cover of her 1990 debut—even if her head isn’t quite as shaved.” —Rolling Stone
“A feminist icon whose music blends folk, punk, funk, and jazz influences, DiFranco broke new ground in 1990, when she founded her own record label, Righteous Babe Records, allowing her to maintain full creative control over her work in an industry often dominated by major labels. She won the Grammy for Best Recording Package for her 2003 album, Evolve, and is also known for albums like Not a Pretty Girl, Dilate, Little Plastic Castle, and Living in Clip.” —Deadline
“Ani DiFranco achieved her iconic status by relentlessly storming the 1990s, during which she played well over 3,000 shows, always taking the stage with an acoustic guitar and fake nails electric-taped to her fingers to achieve her kinetic rhythms. For every year of that decade she released an album on her self-owned indie label, Righteous Babe. Since then, she’s continued to tirelessly record and tour, while also expanding her reach—as an activist, impresario, collaborator, parent, and business owner.” —Acoustic Guitar
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1030 Elysian Fields Ave, 1030 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, United States
USD 34.59
