Back in Babeville
Ani DiFranco has been so many things to so many people over the years since she first emerged from the weekly “open mic” nights inside Allentown’s Nietzsche’s. Killer guitarist, folkie with a punk attitude, activist, poet ... the list goes on. But it is only recently that one might add the descriptives “playful” and “optimistic” to that list. Calm down, though — it’s not like “Red Letter Year,” DiFranco’s rather brilliant new album, is full of misty-eyed reveries on the joys of marriage and the unending bounties of motherhood. Ani’s still Ani — still edgy, still searching, still suspicious of accepted fact and conventional wisdom. She has gotten better at writing about it, that’s all.
Ani DiFranco and band return to the house they built, the Church now housing the Asbury Hall at Babeville concert space (341 Delaware Ave.), at 7 p. m. Saturday. The show is sold out. — Jeff Miers
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