Ani DiFranco / Chastity Brown

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Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston
MA
02115
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As a singer-songwriter, activist, and independent entrepreneur, Ani DiFranco has been setting her own pace—and encouraging countless admirers to do the same—for more than 20 years. But while she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has grown far beyond her acoustic solo roots in cozy venues to embrace jazz, soul, electronica, and even more distant sounds, all of which are featured in DiFranco’s new Righteous Babe release, Allergic to Water. On this album, she blends abstract imagery and deceptively understated melodies with personal reflections on her life in New Orleans where she is now raising her two children with her partner, producer Mike Napolitano.

A strong belief in human rights has run throughout her work, including when she played at numerous benefit concerts around the world. At a time when record labels still held an oversized influence, DiFranco stood ahead of the curve in launching her own Righteous Babe Records. The company has released more than 20 of her albums to date, ranging from the popular two-disc live album, Living in Clip (1997), to the expansive To the Teeth (1999), which included such guests as legendary R&B saxophonist Maceo Parker and Prince. 

Now based in Minnesota but with roots in the Deep South, Chastity Brown has the "ability to distill Southern blues and plaintive North Country prairie influences into expansive, alluring folk songs" (The Current). She is a powerful new voice with the ability to warm, comfort and challenge. She's been hailed by NPR, CMT, American Songwriter, the London Times, and Paste Magazine as a songwriter to watch and has appeared on UK television on Later... with Jools Holland.