The Women Songwriters Hall of Fame will celebrate its fifth anniversary over two days this week at the Mead Center for American Theatre in Washington, D.C. There will be workshops and panel ...

Ian had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s and went on to win two Grammys. A new documentary tells her life story through a combination of vintage footage and newly recorded interviews.

Trace the life and music of “Society’s Child” folk icon and LGBTQ+ advocate Janis Ian. Discover the life of singer-songwriter Janis Ian and how she rose as a folk icon and gay rights advocate. She ...

“Janis Ian: Breaking Silence” is so close to being a great documentary that its easily remedied flaws are all the more vexing. Director Varda Bar-Kar (“Fandango at the Wall”) offers a conventional but ...

Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming. Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming, inspired by a restaurant owner they were friends with named Mary, ...

The "Society's Child" singer-songwriter discusses the life-changing experience in the new documentary 'Janis Ian: Breaking Silence' Singer-songwriter Janis Ian had a Top 20 hit at age 16 with her 1966 ...

Janis Ian and Joan Baez have released a new single, featuring a duet by the two legendary folk singers. But there’s a twist. “One in a Million,” written by Ian and Jess Leary, features a performance ...

It's easy to get tongue-tied when you're on the phone talking to Janis Ian. This is the woman whose introduction to the cultural zeitgeist as a guitar-toting child of liberal Jewish atheists was met ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...