ANI DIFRANCO

Thursday November 20th 8:30pm

at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA

“I’ve got myself a new mantra,” Ani DiFranco shares on her new studio album. “It says ‘Don’t forget to have a good time.’” This attitude has clearly influenced the dozen tunes on Red Letter Year, which celebrates existence, professes love and tackles thorny political issues with an infectious sense of glee. It’s one of Ani’s most joyous records to date.
And it has been a long time coming. Red Letter Year was sculpted over the course of two years, a period in which Ani continued to hone her songwriting, performing and recording skills, all the while balancing her new role as a mom. “I think I sorely needed to be slowed down, and finally a little person came along powerful enough to do it,” Ani reflects. The end result is an album of focused, layered, panoramic music.
“When I listen to my new record, I hear a very relaxed me, which I think has been absent in a lot of my recorded canon,” Ani explains. “Now I feel like I’m in a really good place. My partner Mike Napolitano co-produced this record – my guitar and voice have never sounded better, and that’s because of him. I’ve got this great band and crew. And my baby, she teaches me how to just be in my skin, to do less and be more.”

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BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA

Three Shows Added!!!

Wednesday, November 25th 7:30pm at

Sovereign Performing Arts Center, Reading PA

Saturday, November 28th 8:00pm at

Trump Taj Mahal Casino, Mark Etess Arena, Atlantic City NJ

Sunday, November 29th 7:30pm at

The Keswick Theatre, Glenside PA

Brian Setzer has sold millions of records throughout his career. He has built a reputation as one of the world's most respected guitarists and even supervised the launch of his own series of Gretsch "Brian Setzer Model" signature guitars, including last year's new "Black Phoenix" model. Yet even with his Gretsch affiliation, the Gibson guitar company has singled him out for a prestigious Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brian Setzer Orchestra is an ensemble of world-class musicians, playing state-of-the-art charts, and blowing away jazz hipsters as well as families celebrating the holiday. Their sound, as groundbreaking as the rockabilly revival that Setzer had launched previously with the Stray Cats, earned three Grammy Awards, two for Best Pop Instrumental Performance ("Sleepwalk," from the multi-platinum The Dirty Boogie in 1998 and "Caravan," from VaVoom, in 2000) and one for Best Pop Performance ("Jump, Jive an' Wail," also from The Dirty Boogie, 1998).
Critics are dazzled by Brian Setzer Orchestra's unprecedented fusion of big-band swing and rock swagger: After staggering home from a Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas show, a journalist declared, "The show was more than an extravaganza. It was a party-in every sense of the word."

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