You saw the documentary, now see Ani DiFranco in the flesh at Orlando’s Plaza Live

Almost exactly a week after the hagiographic documentary 1-800-ON-HER-OWN screened in Orlando, the indie-folk icon and DIY-or-die maverick Ani DiFranco comes to the City Beautiful in the flesh. And she’s not quite ready for the history books yet.

DiFranco is touring behind her 23rd album — out on her own indie label, Righteous Babe Records, as per usual — the all-too-aptly titled Unprecedented Sh!t.

This show is among her first forays into Florida in nearly a decade, and in the age of DeSantis, we need her sonic defiance more than ever. That defiance suffuses every note of Unprecedented Sh!t, rife with songs about abortion, climate change and patriarchal fascism (because, again, here we are).

DiFranco just wrapped a six-month run as Persephone in the Broadway production of Hadestown — her Broadway debut — and she’s ready to concentrate on her own music and her very urgent messages.

8 p.m. Saturday, March 8, The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave., plazaliveorlando.org, $35.

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This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2025.