Janis Ian News

 
KAFM NOTES: From Ian to Akon, 45 years in the arc's bend
Grand Junction Free Press
Probably the most famous tragic song about an interracial relationship was Janis Ian's “Society's Child,” which went to #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1967. Written two years earlier when Ian was only 14 years old, the song was released in 1966 but it ...


 
Marcus Simeone Returns to the Metropolitan Room, 6/30
Broadway World
For this special performance, Marcus will revisit favorites like Janis Ian's He Must Be Beautiful, Everything Must Change, Many Rivers To Cross and Haunted ( 2011 MAC Award winner for Outstanding Song of the Year written with Tracy Stark ) as well as ...


 
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter to be commencement speaker at Warren Wilson
Mountain Xpress
By Caitlin Byrd on 05/01/2012 08:30 AM About the speaker: Best known as a songwriter/singer, Janis Ian also is a magazine columnist and science fiction author. Her autobiography, “Society's Child,” received much acclaim upon publication in 2008.


 
AB Tech, Warren Wilson, Mars Hill graduations this Saturday
Asheville Citizen-Times
SWANNANOA – Grammy Award winner Janis Ian will deliver the main address at the 2012 Warren Wilson College Commencement Saturday. The commencement ceremony begins at 10 am on the lawn of Sunderland Residence Hall, near the north entrance to campus.

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Vancouver pop-rock band Hey Ocean! plays it their way (with video)
Vancouver Sun
Simmons, the KISS bassist/marketing mastermind, really wanted Hey Ocean! to cover Janis Ian's classic song At Seventeen, and he was pretty specific about how it should be done. So Ball and Hey Ocean! bassist David Vertesi headed into the studio to ...

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Kevin Bryan's Record Reviews
Halesowen News
... for the work that she did in the early seventies, when her pensive interpretations of songs such as Ewan Mac Coll's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and Janis Ian's "Jesse" made a profound impact on audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.


 
Irish Independent
Barry Egan: Black's labour of love
Irish Independent
Janis Ian's I am The One is just as poignant and potent. David Crosby does Columbus John. Steve Earle sings the wonderful God Is God: Something sacred burning in every bush and tree. We can all learn to sing the songs the angels sing.

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