I am 26 and this woman has been an inspiration to me as long as I can remember! She is a truly AMAZING woman, but remember, she is calling out to all of US! Listen to "face up"..... Seriously! Every girl/ woman has an incredible fire inside, let us each participate, not just appreciate! Though appreciation is good, participation is far greater!! :) Rise up SISTERS! Let us each do something, no matter how big or small, each day to make a difference.. Namaste' Listen to Ani!!

All Lesbian singers are awesome and hot in their own ways. I never saw one that didn't blow me away. She is just amazing with her energy and lyrics. Love Ani.....

she is awesome hope she never stops making music, it's the best i ever heard and i can play her c.ds again and again and never tire

whoa thats red rocks in colorado...how wicked. god i love her.

When she was at the top of the world! What a brilliant time that was!!!!!!!!

YEA!! RED ROCKS IS THE F'ING BOMB FOR A CONCERT !!!!! GREAT VIDEO!!!

thanks for sharing this!!!!!!!

OMFG SO MUCH ENERGY!!! she looks highhhhhhhhhhhhh i wanna see her live now badly !!

I didn't know you could rock on an acoustic like that. Like everyone, I. Love. Ani.

this is the ani we all love!!!! man she is so fantastic-totally unbelieveable!!

i saw her live and fainted! sooo fin good

My favourite DiFranco song. I love her emotion in this song. It just captures me every time. Sigh, I love her so much!

I totally agree. Sometimes the crowds can get on your nerves, but once you focus on Ani... the rest just melts away.

I'm 19, and I feel the same. I bet we got into her around the same time, given a few years. Mom would always play her music in the car when I was in school back home. I went to one of her concerts once, dunno if you've been to the one in your city yet.. but if you haven't, be prepared for a wicked performance!

ITS gotta be the billionth time she's played this....and she does it with THIS energy

dang...yeah mon

Such passion in her performance, you can see she really means it.. everything comes through, true artist! Kristin

this song STILL gives me chills. so good.

have seen her a long time ago when she was not known in England . It was at a festival called Womad in Reading but never thought i would see her live. She was brilliant. First seen her on tv on music show hosted by Eddie reader then friend went to the states and asked him to bring back cassette which he did but then got real cds long live Ani

I love, love, love her. Going to see her tonight in Berkeley! *swoon*

Furious strumming!

I. LOVE. ANI.

Woo, I remember this show... was amazing.

Thanks for the kind words. Holidays good and hopefully your's too. I'm amazed by the relative size of the guitar Ani being petite. Also like how the bass guitarist "Indiana Jones" is grooving to the beat in the background right around 1:15.

Wish she'd tour with Andy again, just the two of them.

awesometown!!!

Impresionante la energía..

Hello Romperjet. I'm guessing it was at least that long ago at the Mann Music center. I thought her playing was akin to 'cardio' acoustic. How she keeps her strings from breaking is beyond me. There are concerts where the opening act is the jewel. I'll reveal my age by this: Another jewel opening act for me was Chicago opening for Iron Butterfly. When was that? 1969ish? Amazing I know how to work a computer! Merry Christmas to you. Now there's an opening act of grace...

Yeah, it was the second time I saw her. The first time was in 97 at the Boulder Field House. Thanks for posting such a great vid!

she's so fuckin awesome

Yeah, Andy Stochansky!

Love.

I've got an audio recording of this song from the same era (Julie, Andy & Jason). The first verse has Ani singing over Julie's piano... it's kind of the best thing ever. Would've been nice to catch a video of it.

i fucking love this song

Oh ja, Klasse!

yaaaay

she's so sick with it... plays her guitar so easily like tapping fingernails in thin-air

Increible, es verdad

@Romperjet true - you can feel her - true that

かっこいい

@Lem0nie I am sure by now you have heard "Plastic Castle", if not, DO IT, it is one of the most poetic songs this great poetic artist has ever created.

She is DOPE live. yes she's still recording, I make a habit of buying all her music lol I think i have everything ever since I was born

I was looking up female folk music. Her name came up. I checked her out. I really like her. She is so good. How long have she been out? She look like so much fun in concert.

yeah, she breaks lots of strings at her concerts. Chicago must have been a sweet act; can't imagine seeing them back in the day. hope your holidays went well. :)

saw het at Cactus Festival in Brugge, Belgium in 1997 - she was A-MA-ZING

Oh my, she even broke a string!

Actually this video it's from 007/01/1998...that was the last tour Andy played with Ani.

Does anybody know where there is more material from this show? I saw it live and they were filming the whole thing, but I never saw a video of it released, The moon was amazing that night and all in all it was quite memorable.

Very underrated guitarist, probably because she doesn't solo... but she surely could if she wanted to.

she looks like she is moving in fast forward.... I like it.

Enjoy! That show will supercede any experience you have listening to her on recording :)

i listen to this song when i need to rev up my badass side

broke a string. that's a good girl. rock it out.

@Lem0nie Try "Untouchable Face", or "32 Flavours" or "Little Plastic Castle". With Ani, spin the wheel, listen to whatever song comes up, enjoy, and repeat. She doesn't have a single bad song, IMNSHO.

its no wonder why she has hand problems... The Folksinger ROCKS

Oooh I like her voice. What is her most well known song? I just came across her by chance...

@missjanesmama Thanks for answering. Yes he is. I really like her music. Is she still making music?

can someone email me the mp3 version of this song

goto say shes pretty damn good guitar player as well as singer song writer

You're missing a verse before it. But this is one of my favorite songs of hers.

@IronicThings She's not that high, shes just an overachiever:) Well not just- much love for ANI

Libra girl :)

that's too bad about BD. funny you should say that because the very first time i saw an article about her in a magazine she was opening for him. that was maybe 12 or 13 years ago--but i think she's played with him more than once maybe? anyway, small world.

We saw her for the first time in Philadephia I can't tell you when. She opened for Bob Dylan. She was amazingly unique and fascinating. When it was Bob's turn, we had to leave. The performance was just incredibly terrible.

She's brutal to her guitar. lol

doesn't matter anyway.

lol great, but she looks like she steroiding/siezuring out in the intro how she shakes haha... the live performance of not a pretty girl is still my fav... with the horns etc.

good lesbian singers are always really hot. :)

Except she's not a lesbian