The Value of Letting Go: Ani DiFranco Steps Out of Her Comfort Zone

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By
Lynne Margolis
August 21, 2024
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Releasing a new album is stressful enough for most artists, but releasing an album, a documentary, and a book almost simultaneously – while singing and dancing in a Broadway musical? That sounds crazy even to Ani DiFranco, who released her 23rd album, Unprecedented Sh!t, in May, while performing as Persephone in Hadestown, reprising the role she sang on the same-titled Anais Mitchell album that became the folk opera.

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Black and white image of a passionate female Ani DiFranco guitarist playing and singing into a microphone on stage, clearly engaged in her performance.
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