Janis Ian shares the eternal green room with Judy Collins and Leonard Cohen in Greenwich Village, 1974. She joins us here for three concerts this fall.

Her megahit “At Seventeen” does more than play in the background of the 2004 movie Mean Girls. Singer-Songwriter Janis Ian invented the counternarrative that would inspire actor/writers like

Tina Fey and Janeane Garofalo.  

Our 100,000 print readers are excited about your Maine performances this fall! 

Thanks, I’m pretty excited too! I love Maine, spent wonderful times there as a child (my memories of Monhegan Island are still very vivid, especially the fairy houses) and more recently around the Boothbay Harbor area. My folks have been trying to find dates for Shalin Liu [performance center] for about five years now, and Rockland has that lighthouse…I should just be a tourist and forget the shows, really!

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