Janis Ian News

To the casual fan, noting where Janis Ian will play this weekend might cause a snicker or scoff.

Folk-pop icon Janis Ian comes to The Ark on Saturday. Peter Cunningham Janis Ian was first catapulted into the national spotlight in 1966, when she was just 15 years old, on the strength of her hit single "Society's Child," a stirring song that tackled the then-controversial subject of an interracial relationship.

Submitted by rocker419 on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 16:27. They've announced the headliners for next season's Gamble Rogers Folk Festival and it looks like a good one! Artists like Ralph Stanley, Loudon Wainwright III, Janis Ian, the John Cowan Band, Pierce Pettis, Sam Pacetti, Patty Larkin, Greg Brown, and a handful of other great folk artists will be ...

The good news is, Jann Arden is all right. Better than all right based on her Monday night gig at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, in front of a packed house which will be followed by a second show tonight.

The tradition of singer-songwriters is long and there are many bright lights among them through the centuries.

Still carrying the banner for those who "learned the truth at seventeen," Janis Ian remains an international sensation.

In her only North Texas stop on her current tour, "Society's Child" and "At Seventeen" singer-songwriter Janis Ian will perform next Thursday, October 22, at the Rose Room in Station 4 . The show is $25 per person and serves as a fund-raiser for the North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce .

Janis Ian is counted among Amerca's greatest songwriters and adjusts her guitar during the Savannah Folk Music Festival on Sunday at Grayson Stadium.

You'd be hard pressed to find a more accessible star than Janis Ian, headliner for the 2009 Savannah Folk Music Festival.

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There's an inescapable saying in hip-hop music: "Keep it real." The phrase has progressed to "keep it 100," as in being real 100 percent of the time.

Those who only know her from a few hit songs, especially "Society's Child" and "At Seventeen"--and I freely admit I was one of them--will be astounded by the amazing life lived by singer-songwriter Janis Ian, and the equally amazing skill with which she tells it.

So much has already been said about singer Mary Travers and her great talent, but I would be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to thank her, posthumously, for one of the most subtle, heart-breaking vocal performances everA - her devastating, plain-spoken delivery of "Leaving On A Jet Plane," the world's most bittersweet musical goodbye.

I can still point out the exact spot where I was violently sick. The girls, needless to say, were less than impressed.

One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening Gonna raise my head up high. One of these days I'm gonna raise up my glistening wings and fly.

JANIS IAN Two chances to catch the singer/songwriter who gave us At Seventeen and Society's Child.

Janis Ian performs on Thursday and Friday, May 21 and 22, 7:30 p.m., at Ruth Eckerd Hall.