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Ani DiFranco
DiFranco performing at the Ancienne Belgique in 2007
DiFranco performing at the Ancienne Belgique in 2007
Background information
Birth nameAngela Maria DiFranco
Born (1970-09-23) September 23, 1970 (age 54)
Buffalo, New York
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • singer-songwriter
  • poet
Instruments
  • Guitar
  • vocals
Years active1989–present
LabelsRighteous Babe
Websiteanidifranco.com Edit this at Wikidata

Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco[2] (/ˈɑːniː/; born 1970) is an American singer-songwriter.[3] She has released more than 20 albums.[4][5][6][7] DiFranco's music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock, although it has additional influences from punk, funk, hip hop and jazz. She has released all her albums on her own record label, Righteous Babe, giving her significant creative freedom.

DiFranco supports many social and political movements by performing benefit concerts, appearing on benefit albums and speaking at rallies. Through the Righteous Babe Foundation, DiFranco has backed grassroots cultural and political organizations supporting causes including abortion rights and LGBT visibility. She counts American folk singer and songwriter Pete Seeger among her mentors.[8]

DiFranco released a memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, on May 7, 2019, via Viking Books.[9]

Early life and education

DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York,[10] on September 23, 1970, the daughter of Elizabeth (Ross) and Dante Americo DiFranco (died 2004), who had met while attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[11][12][13] Her father was of Italian descent, and her mother was from Montreal.[14] DiFranco started playing Beatles covers at local bars and busking with her guitar teacher, Michael Meldrum,[15] at the age of nine. By 14 she was writing her own songs. She played them at bars and coffee houses throughout her teens. DiFranco graduated from the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts high school at 16 and began attending classes at Buffalo State College. She was living by herself, having moved out of her mother's apartment after she became an emancipated minor when she was 15.[16]

Career

DiFranco started her own record company, Righteous Babe Records, in 1989 at age 19.[4] She released her self-titled debut album in the winter of 1990, shortly after relocating to New York City. There, she took poetry classes at The New School, where she met poet Sekou Sundiata, who was to become a friend and mentor. She toured steadily for the next 15 years, pausing only to record albums. Appearances at Canadian folk festivals and increasingly larger venues in the U.S. reflected her increasing popularity on the North American folk and roots scene. Throughout the early and mid-1990s DiFranco toured solo and also as a duo with Canadian drummer Andy Stochansky.

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 later released a CD on Righteous Babe of the concert Til We Outnumber Em featuring artists such as DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Indigo Girls, Dave Pirner, Tim Robbins, and Bruce Springsteen with 100 percent of proceeds going to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum educational department.[17]

In 1996, bassist Sara Lee joined the touring group, whose live rapport is showcased on the 1997 album Living in Clip. DiFranco would later release Lee's solo album Make It Beautiful on Righteous Babe. In 1998, Stochansky left to pursue a solo career as a singer-songwriter. 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]

The 1990s were a period of heightened exposure for DiFranco, as she continued playing ever larger venues around the world and attracted international attention of the press, including cover stories in Spin, Ms., and Magnet, among others,[19] as well as appearances on MTV and VH1. Her playfully ironic cover of the Bacharach/David song "Wishin' and Hopin'" appeared under the opening titles of the film My Best Friend's Wedding.[20] She guest starred on a 1998 episode of the Fox sitcom King of the Hill, as the voice of Peggy's feminist guitar teacher, Emily.[21] Beginning in 1999, Righteous Babe Records began releasing albums by other artists including Sara Lee, Sekou Sundiata, Michael Meldrum, Arto Lindsay, Bitch and Animal, That One Guy, Utah Phillips, Hamell on Trial, Andrew Bird, Kurt Swinghammer, Buddy Wakefield, Anaïs Mitchell and Nona Hendryx.

On September 11, 2001, DiFranco was in Manhattan and later penned the poem "Self Evident" about the experience. The poem was featured in the book It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11. The poem's title also became the name of DiFranco's first book of poetry released exclusively in Italy by Minimum Fax. It was later also featured in Verses, a book of her poetry published in the U.S. by Seven Stories press.[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]

Since her 2005 release Knuckle Down (co-produced by Joe Henry) DiFranco's touring band and recordings have featured bass player Todd Sickafoose and in turns other musicians such as Allison Miller, Andy Borger, Herlin Riley, and Terence Higgins on drums and Mike Dillon on percussion and vibes.

On September 11, 2007, she released the first retrospective of her career, a two disc compilation entitled Canon and simultaneously a retrospective collection of poetry book Verses. On September 30, 2008, she released Red Letter Year.

DiFranco performing in 2008

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?" in a duet with Bruce Cockburn and also duetting with Kris Kristofferson on the folk classic "There's a Hole in the Bucket".[24]

DiFranco released an album on January 17, 2012, ¿Which Side Are You On?. It includes collaborations with Pete Seeger, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville, Skerik, Adam Levy, Righteous Babe recording artist Anaïs 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.

In 2014, she released her eighteenth album, Allergic to Water. In 2017, she released her nineteenth, Binary.

On May 7, 2019, DiFranco released a memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, via Viking Books. It is described as a "coming-of-age story."[9]

Ani DiFranco, RZA, and Steve Albini at The New Yorker festival in September 2005.

Personal life

DiFranco came out as bisexual in her twenties,[25] and has written songs about love and sex with women and men. She addressed the controversy about her sexuality in the song "In or Out" on the album Imperfectly (1992). In 1998, she married her sound engineer Andrew Gilchrist[26] in a Unitarian Universalist service in Canada. DiFranco and Gilchrist divorced in 2003.[27]

In 1990, she wrote "Lost Woman Song", which was inspired by her abortions at ages eighteen and twenty.[28]

DiFranco's father died in the summer of 2004.[29] In July 2005, DiFranco developed tendinitis and took a nine-month hiatus from touring. In January 2007 DiFranco gave birth to her first child, a daughter,[30][31] at her Buffalo home. She married the child's father, Mike Napolitano, also her regular producer, in 2009. In an interview on September 13, 2012, DiFranco mentioned that she was pregnant with her second child.[32] In April 2013, she gave birth to her second child, a son.[33]

DiFranco has resided in the Bywater, New Orleans, neighborhood since 2008.[34]

DiFranco has described herself as an atheist. On the subject of religion, DiFranco has stated:[35]

Well, I'm not a religious person myself. I'm an atheist. 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. But then, of course, institutional religions are so problematic.

Critical reception

DiFranco has been a critical success for much of her career, with a career album average of 72 on Metacritic.[36] Living in Clip, DiFranco's 1998 double live album, is the only one to achieve gold record status to date. DiFranco was praised by The Buffalo News in 2006 as "Buffalo's leading lady of rock music".[37]

Starting in 2003, DiFranco was nominated four consecutive times for Best Recording Package at the Grammy Awards, winning in 2004 for Evolve.[38]

On July 21, 2006, DiFranco received the Woman of Courage Award at the National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference and Young Feminist Summit in Albany, New York. DiFranco was one of the first musicians to receive the award, given each year to a woman who has set herself apart by her contributions to the feminist movement.[39]

In 2009, DiFranco received the Woody Guthrie Award for being a voice of positive social change.[40]

Music

Style

DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style,[41][42] rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its rhythmic variation. Her lyrics, which often include alliteration, metaphor, word play and a more or less gentle irony, have also received praise for their sophistication.[citation needed]

DiFranco in concert

Although DiFranco's music has been classified as both folk rock and alternative rock, she has reached across genres since her earliest albums incorporating first punk, then funk, hiphop, and jazz influences.

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.

DiFranco has stated that "folk music is not an acoustic guitar – that's not where the heart of it is. I use the word 'folk' in reference to punk music and rap music. It's an attitude, it's an awareness of one's heritage, and it's a community. It's subcorporate music that gives voice to different communities and their struggle against authority."[43]

Musical collaborations, cover versions, and samples

DiFranco has collaborated with a wide range of artists. In 1997 she appeared on Canadian songwriter Bruce Cockburn's Charity of Night album. In 1998 she produced fellow folksinger Dan Bern's album Fifty Eggs.

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).[44] The Past is built around Phillips's storytelling, an important part of his art that had not previously been documented on recordings; on the album, DiFranco provides musical settings for his speaking voice.[43] The followup, Fellow Workers, was recorded live in Daniel Lanois's Kingsway Studio in New Orleans and features Phillips fronting DiFranco's touring band for a collection of songs and stories.

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.[45] Funk and soul jazz musician Maceo Parker and rapper Corey Parker have both appeared on DiFranco's albums[46] and featured appearances by her on theirs. Parker and Di Franco toured together in 1999.

She has appeared on several compilations of the songs of Pete Seeger and frequented his Hudson Clearwater Revival Festival.[47] In 2001 she appeared on Brazilian artist Lenine's album Falange Canibal. In 2002 her rendition of Greg Brown's "The Poet Game" appeared on Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown. 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.[48]

In 2005 she appeared on Dar Williams' record My Better Self, dueting on William's cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". She performed with Cyndi Lauper on "Sisters of Avalon" a track from Lauper's 2005 The Body Acoustic album. In 2006 she produced Hamell on Trial's album Songs for Parents Who Enjoy Drugs. In 2008 she appeared on Todd Sickafoose's album Tiny Resisters. In 2010 she co-produced a track with Margaret Cho called "Captain Cameltoe" for the comedian's Cho Dependant album. 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. Also in 2011 she duetted with Greg Dulli on the Twilight Singers record Dynamite Steps.[49]

Other artists have covered and sampled DiFranco's work throughout the years. Her spoken word poem "Self Evident" was covered by Public Enemy founder Chuck D's group called Impossebulls. Alana Davis had some commercial success with DiFranco's song "32 Flavors".

Samples from the track "Coming Up" were used by DJ Spooky in his album Live Without Dead Time, produced for AdBusters Magazine in 2003.

In 2010, DiFranco played Persephone on Anaïs Mitchell's album Hadestown.

Lyrical content

Although much of DiFranco's material is autobiographical, it is often also strongly political. Many of her songs are concerned with contemporary social issues such as racism, sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights, poverty, and war. 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. The combination of personal and political is partially responsible for DiFranco's early popularity among politically active college students, particularly those of the left wing, some of whom set up fan pages on the web to document DiFranco's career as early as 1994. DiFranco's rapid rise in popularity in the mid-1990s was fueled mostly by personal contact and word of mouth rather than mainstream media.[50]

Label independence

Ani cites her anti-corporate ethos for the main reason she decided to start her own label. This has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom[51] over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.[52] She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including "The Million You Never Made" (Not a Pretty Girl), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, "The Next Big Thing" (Not So Soft), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and "Napoleon" (Dilate), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

The business grew organically starting in 1990 with the first cassette tape. Connections were made when women in colleges started duplicating and sharing tapes. Offers to play at colleges started coming in and her popularity grew largely by word of mouth and through women's groups or organizations.[50] Zango and Goldenrod, two music distributors specializing in women's music, started carrying DiFranco's music. In general they sold music to independent music stores and women's book stores. In 1995 Righteous Babe Records signed with Koch International for DiFranco's release of Not a Pretty Girl. Her records could then be found in large and small record stores alike.

DiFranco has occasionally joined with Prince in discussing publicly the problems associated with major record companies. Righteous Babe Records employs a number of people in her hometown of Buffalo. In a 1997 open letter to Ms. magazine[53] she expressed displeasure that what she considers a way to ensure her own artistic freedom was seen by others solely in terms of its financial success.

Activism

From the earliest days of her career, Ani DiFranco has lent her voice and her name to a broad range of social movements, performing benefit concerts, appearing on benefit albums, speaking at rallies, and offering info table space to organizations at her concerts and the virtual equivalent on her website, among other methods and actions. 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."[54]

During the first Gulf War, DiFranco participated in the anti-war movement. In early 1993 she played Pete Seeger's Clearwater Folk Festival for the first time. In 1998 she was a featured performer in the Dead Man Walking benefit concert series[55] raising money for Sister Helen Prejean's "Not in Our Name" anti-death penalty organization. DiFranco's commitment to opposing the death penalty is longstanding; she has also been a long time supporter of the Southern Center for Human Rights.

During the 2000 U.S. presidential election, she actively supported and voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader,[56][57][58] though in an open letter she made clear that if she lived in a swing state, she would vote for Al Gore to prevent George W. Bush from being elected.[59]

In 2004 DiFranco visited Burma in order to learn about the Burmese resistance movement and the country's fight for democracy.[60] During her travels she met with then-detained resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Her song "In The Way" was later featured on For the Lady, a benefit CD that donated all proceeds to the United States Campaign for Burma.[61]

During the 2004 presidential primaries, she supported liberal, anti-war Democrat Dennis Kucinich. Congressman Kucinich appeared on stage with her at several concerts and she spoke positively about him from the stage at many more of her concerts. After the primary season ended, and John Kerry was the clear Democratic candidate, DiFranco launched a "Vote Dammit!" tour of swing states encouraging audience members to vote.[62] In 2005 she lobbied Congress against the proliferation of nuclear power in general and the placement of nuclear waste dumps on Indian land in particular.[63][64] In 2008 she again backed Kucinich in his bid for the presidency.[65]

In 2002 Righteous Babe Records established the "Aiding Buffalo's Children" program in conjunction with members of the local community to raise funds for Buffalo's public school system. To kick off the program, DiFranco donated "a day's pay"—the performance fee from her concert that year at Shea's Performing Arts Center— to ABC and challenged her fans to do the same. Aiding Buffalo's Children has since been folded into the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo, contributing to a variety of charitable funds.[66]

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,[67] helping musicians replace instruments lost in the hurricane, raising over $47,500 for the cause.

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.[68]

DiFranco also sits on the board for The Roots of Music,[69] founded by Rebirth Brass Band drummer Derrick Tabb. The organization provides free marching band instruction to children in the New Orleans area in addition to academic tutoring and mentoring.

DiFranco joined about 500,000 people at the March for Women's Lives in DC in April 2004. As an honored guest she marched in the front row for the three-mile route, along with Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Gloria Steinem and others. Later in the day, Ani played a few songs on the main stage in front of the Capitol, including "Your Next Bold Move".[70]

Scot Fisher, Righteous Babe label president and DiFranco's longtime manager, has been a longtime advocate of the preservation movement in Buffalo. In 1999 he and DiFranco purchased a decaying church on the verge of demolition in downtown Buffalo and began the lengthy process of restoring it. In 2006 the building opened its doors again, first briefly as "The Church" and then as "Babeville," housing two concert venues, the record label's business office, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.[71]

DiFranco is also a member of the Toronto-based charity Artists Against Racism for which she participated in a radio PSA.[72]

Criticism

In 2013 DiFranco was criticized on social media and faced "a great deal of outcry"[73] after the announcement that she was hosting a three-day artists' workshop billed as the "Righteous Retreat" at Iberville Parish's Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana.[74][75] Nottoway was one of the largest plantations in the South, and features the largest antebellum mansion. Its operator and founder John Randolph owned over 155 slaves in the year 1860.[76] The grounds are now operated as a luxury resort.[77] Critics charged that the resort's promotional material attempts to portray the plantation owner in a positive light,[78] to downplay the suffering of the slaves, and to "sanitize" and "romanticize" the history of slavery for commercial gain.[73][79][80][81][82] DiFranco's choice of venue for the retreat was called "a very blatant display of racism" on a petition at Change.org that collected more than 2,600 signatures.[83]

On December 29, 2013, DiFranco issued an apology, announcing that she was cancelling the retreat, stating that:

i have heard you: all who have voiced opposition to my conducting a writing and performing seminar at the nottoway plantation. i have decided to cancel the retreat.

when i agreed to do a retreat (with a promoter who has organized such things before with other artists and who approached me about being the next curator/host/teacher), i did not know the exact location it was to be held. [...]

i am not unaware of the mechanism of white privilege or the fact that i need to listen more than talk when it comes to issues of race. if nottoway is simply not an acceptable place for me to go and try to do my work in the eyes of many, then let me just concede before more divisive words are spilled. [...]

i think many positive and life-affirming connections would have been made at this conference, in all of its complexity of design. i do not wish to reinvent the righteous retreat at this point to eliminate the stay at the Nottoway Plantation.at this point I wish only to cancel.

i ask only that as we attempt to continue to confront our country's history together, let us not forget that the history of slavery and exploitation is at the foundation of much of our infrastructure in this country, not just at old plantation sites. let us not oversimplify to black and white a society that contains many many shades of grey. and let us not forget to be compassionate towards each other as we attempt to move forward and write the next pages in our history. our story is not over and, Citizens of the Internet, it is now ours to write.[84]

The singer's statements were called "remarkably unapologetic" on Jezebel,[75][78] and "a variety of excuses and justifications" by Ebony.[80] Additionally, a piece at The Guardian said the announcement made "much of the idea that this was all a mistake, with no indication of remorse."[82]

DiFranco issued a second statement and apology on January 2, 2014, following continued criticism. In it, she wrote "... i would like to say i am sincerely sorry. it is obvious to me now that you were right – all those who said we can't in good conscience go to that place and support it or look past for one moment what it deeply represents. i needed a wake up call and you gave it to me."[85]

In 2019 DiFranco reflected on the experience with the cancelled retreat as devastating: "“It put a level of fear into me that I had never felt. I could stand up to anybody, until it was my own tribe. I would not be taken down by anybody. But when it became my own tribe, I experienced a crisis … I just think Goddess help all the young artists and writers who are trying to be intrepid and insist on being human and being able to make mistakes, because that’s part of evolution.”[86]

Awards and nominations

Year Nominated work Award Result
1997 "Shy" Grammy Awards, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated
1998 "Glass House" Grammy Awards, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated
1999 "Little Plastic Castle" Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards/ Best Rock/ Alternative Song Won
1999 Ani DiFranco Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards/ OutMusic Award Won
1999 Ani DiFranco Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards/ Female Artist of the Year Nominated
2000 "Hello Birmingham" Planned Parenthood Maggie Award for Media Excellence Won
2000 "Jukebox" Grammy Awards, Best Rock Vocal Performance- Female Nominated
2000 Fellow Workers Grammy Awards, Best Contemporary Folk Album Nominated
2000 Ani DiFranco Gibson Guitar Award, Best Acoustic Artist Female Won
2004 Evolve Grammy Awards, Best Recording Package Won
2004 Ani DiFranco Southern Center for Human Rights, Human Rights Award Won
2005 Educated Guess Grammy Awards, Best Contemporary Folk Album Nominated
2005 Educated Guess Grammy Awards, Best Recording Package Nominated
2006 Knuckle Down Grammy Awards, Best Recording Package Nominated
2006 Ani DiFranco National Organization of Women, Woman of Courage Award Won
2007 Reprieve Grammy Awards, Best Recording Package Nominated
2008 "State of Mind" BMI Cable Award Won
2009 Ani DiFranco Woodie Guthrie Award Won
2013 Ani DiFranco Winnipeg Folk Festival Artistic Achievement Award Won
2017 Ani DiFranco A2IM Lifetime Achievement Award[87] Won
2017 Ani DiFranco Outstanding Achievement for Global Activism Award from A Global Friendship Won

Discography

Main article: Ani DiFranco discography

Studio albums

With Utah Phillips

Live albums

  • 1994 – An Acoustic Evening With
  • 1994 – Women in (E)motion (German Release)
  • 1997 – Living in Clip
  • 2002 – So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
  • 2004 – Atlanta – 10.9.03 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2004 – Sacramento – 10.25.03 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2004 – Portland – 4.7.04 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2005 – Boston – 11.16.03 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2005 – Chicago – 1.17.04 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2005 – Madison – 1.25.04 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2005 – Rome – 11.15.04 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2006 – Carnegie Hall – 4.6.02 (Official Bootleg series No. 1 – available in stores)
  • 2007 – Boston – 11.10.06 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2008 – Hamburg – 10.18.07 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2009 – Saratoga, CA – 9.18.06 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2009 – Chicago – 9.22.07 (Official Bootleg series #1)
  • 2010 – Live at Bull Moose Music (Limited edition)[89]
  • 2012 – Buffalo – April 22, 2012 (Official Bootleg series #2)
  • 2013 – London – October 29, 2008 (Official Bootleg series #2)
  • 2014 – Ridgefield, CT – November 18, 2009 (Official Bootleg series #2)
  • 2014 – Harrisburg, PA – January 23, 2008 (Official Bootleg series #2)
  • 2015 – New York, NY – March 30, 1995 (Official Bootleg series #2)
  • 2016 – Glenside, PA – November 11, 2012 (Official Bootleg series #2)
  • 2016 – Melbourne, FL – January 19, 2016 (Official Bootleg series #2)
  • 2018 – Charlottesville, VA – 5.12.18 (Official Bootleg series #3)
  • 2019 – Woodstock, NY – 6.16.19 (Official Bootleg series #3)

EPs

Videos

  • 2002 – Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco
  • 2004 – Trust
  • 2008 – Live at Babeville

Compilations

  • 1993 – Like I Said: Songs 1990–91[91]
  • 1995 – Live from Mountain Stage, Vol. 8 – "Buildings & Bridges (live)"
  • 1996 – Women's Work – "Cradle and All (live)"
  • 1996 – Women: Live from Mountain Stage- "Egos Like Hairdos (live)"
  • 1997 – Divine Divas: A World of Women's Voices- "Amazing Grace"
  • 1998 – Live at World Café Vol. 6- "Buildings & Bridges (live)"
  • 1998 – Modern Day Storytellers – "Buildings & Bridges"
  • 1998 – Rare on Air Vol. 4 (KCRW) – "Gravel (live)"
  • 1998 – Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Songs of Pete Seeger – "My Name is Lisa Kalvelage"
  • 1998 – Women of Spirit- "Done Wrong"
  • 1999 – Respect: A Century of Women in Music- "32 Flavors"
  • 2000 – Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska- "Used Cars"
  • 2000 – Best of Hard Rock Café Live – "Little Plastic Castle (live)"
  • 2000 – 'Til We Outnumber 'Em – Performed "Do Re Mi" solo and "Ramblin' Round" with Indigo Girls; Producer
  • 2001 – Live @ The World Café Vol. 10 – "32 Flavors"
  • 2001 – Best of Sessions at West 54th – "32 Flavors"
  • 2002 – Gascd – "Your Next Bold Move"
  • 2002 – Going Driftless: An Artist Tribute to Greg Brown- "The Poet Game"
  • 2002 – When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear – "Unforgettable" w/ Jackie Chan
  • 2003 – Peace Not War – "Self Evident"
  • 2004 – Peace Not War Vol. 2 – "Animal"
  • 2004 – For the Lady – "In the Way"
  • 2005 – Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004 (CD & DVD) – "Evolve (live)"
  • 2006 – Music Is Hope- "Napoleon (remix)"
  • 2006 – Dead Man Walking: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture – "Crime for Crime", "Fuel", "Up Up Up Up Up Up"
  • 2007 – Canon
  • 2007 – Sowing the Seed: The 10th Anniversary Appleseed Recordings – "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"
  • 2007 – Cool as Folk: Cambridge Folk Festival – "Cradle and All (live)"
  • 2009 – Singing Through the Hard Times: A Utah Phillips Celebration – "The International"
  • 2011 – Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie – "Voice"
  • 2011 – Every Mother Counts – "Present/Infant" (Remix)
  • 2012 – Occupy This Album – "Which Side Are You On? (a capella)"
  • 2019 – No Walls Mixtape

Other contributions

Poetry

  • 2004 – Self-evident: poesie e disegni
  • 2007 – Verses

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