Ani DiFranco

This is a long version trailer of the documentary, Falling Together in New Orleans - A Series of Vignettes featuring music by Ani Difranco www.righteousbabe.com SOLO JOURNALIST & DOCUMENTARY ARTIST Farrah Hoffmire was inspired by grassroots organizing and volunteer efforts in the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina. She has traveled to New Orleans numerous times to create a solo work that is part art-vignette, part documentary film and part grassroots journalism. In stark contrast to the failure and corruption stories that have dominated mass-media coverage, Falling Together introduces us to powerful people fighting to save lives, preserve culture and bring a sense of well-being back to New Orleans. Conceived as an ongoing, subscription-based platform to follow events in New Orleans as they unfold over the next few years, it also explores the ongoing complexities of rebuilding in areas of the city still severely damaged -- such as the Lower 9th Ward. The film features music by Ani Difranco as well as some of New Orleans s top musicians. The film series has been featured at the: * Oral History Association national conference (Little Rock, AR) * Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (Seattle, WA) * Lake Eden Arts Festival (Asheville, NC) * Zeitgeist Film Series (Tulane University, New Orleans) * Hurricane Katrina Campus Media Project (worldwide 2007-2008) *ConvergeSouth Film Festival (Greensboro, NC 2007) *Ani DiFranco U.S. Winter Tour (SouthEast 2007)

This is TheRFW.COM's footage and interview archive from Rothbury Music Festival 2009 in Rothbury, Michigan. Stay tuned to TheRFW.COM and Current.com for the release off all the footage. We will be releasing a three part series consisting of two videos per part. This is part 2/2 of One, including footage and interviews from Brett Dennen, Les Claypool and The Black Crowes. Artists covered in the remaining parts include Pretty Lights, Ani DiFranco, Matisyahu, Gift of Gab , Cold War Kids, RRE, Toubab Krewe, Future Rock and many more. Please Stay tuned to TheRFW.COM for more releases ...... ENJOY! Edited and Shot By: Raymond Grubb

This is TheRFW.COM's footage and interview archive from Rothbury Music Festival 2009 in Rothbury, Michigan. Stay tuned to TheRFW.COM and Current.com for the release off all the footage. We will be releasing a three part series consisting of two videos per part. This is part 1/2 of One, including footage and interviews from Brett Dennen, Les Claypool and The Black Crowes. Artists covered in the remaining parts include Pretty Lights, Ani DiFranco, Matisyahu, Gift of Gab , Cold War Kids, RRE, Toubab Krewe, Future Rock and many more. Please Stay tuned to TheRFW.COM for more releases ...... ENJOY! Edited and Shot By: Raymond Grubb

Ani DiFranco performs her hit song, “32 Flavors” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Wildly prolific musician with 19 albums to date, Ani DiFranco has always championed progressive causes and social issues. At times raging, at times tender, DiFranco and her music never ceases to be intelligent, forward thinking and undeniably original.

In 1989 Ani DiFranco began her own record label, Righteous Babe Records, as a way to both market her own music but also to escape the pressures of major labels.

If you tried desperately to learn Ani Difranco songs on the guitar in high school, had your heart broken at an Indigo Girls concert, or ever wrote a paper in college about the male gaze , you are probably going to love this music video by girl-rock activist/poet Leibya Rogers. On the other hand, if you are currently wearing a Lilith Fair t-shirt, and have absolutely no sense of humor about your extremely important vegan diet, then you actually might not find this video funny at all (because you are a dillweed). If you re somewhere in the middle on that spectrum, please, prepare to have your life changed.* You re welcome. (Language slightly NSFW.) *Full disclosure: I totally tried to learn Ani Difranco songs in high school, had my heart broken at an Indigo Girls concert, and wrote a paper on the male gaze. I also directed, shot, and edited the above video. It was awesome to work with Mindy Raf (you may remember her from Best Night Ever), who created Leibya to speak to the inner tofu in all of us.