Janis Ian: Last North American Tour — Celebrating Our Years Together

"A brilliant songwriter” –Joan Baez

By the age of sixteen, Janis Ian was a regular performer at the Gaslight (the center of the Greenwich Village folk scene), had played to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall, and was nominated for a Grammy—all while living with her parents and younger brother in their Upper West Side apartment. Ian spent time in her early years with fellow outsiders Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. A versatile and talented performer, known for her “substance, depth, and musicality” (The New York Times), she refused to be pigeonholed as a “protest singer.” Her 1975 hit “At Seventeen,” an anthem of teenage angst, would garner her five Grammy nominations and two Grammy Awards.

Now in her fifth decade of writing songs and performing, Ian received her most recent Grammy nomination in 2016 for the self-produced Patience & Sarah, an audio book she co-narrated with the actress Jean Smart (Designing Women). She has earned a total of 10 Grammy nominations in 8 different categories, a record for a solo artist.

At Montalvo, this iconic artist will dazzle with songs from her catalogue of songs dating back more than 40 years. Don’t miss it!