This may be old news amongst her more rabid devotees, but I just got an alert from Ticketmaster that Ani DiFranco is coming to the Tampa Theatre on March 20, 2009. For those of you that haven't experienced Ms. DiFranco live, you must! She's a cultural phenomenon and a brilliant lyricist and musician to boot. I wonder if she needs an opener…
Here's a You Tube clip of Ani performing "Hypnotized," one of my all time favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9VHpdmIrFM
Read CL music critic Wade Tatangelo's interview with DiFranco.
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2008.