Janis Ian with Livingston Taylor

An intimate evening of incredible song with two of folk music's great un-sung heroes! Janis Ian is a formidable music talent--a force of nature. The great Ella Fitzgerald once called her “The best young singer in America”. Chet Atkins said, “Singer? You ought to hear that girl play guitar--she gives me a run for my money!” At the age of thirteen, Ian released her first and controversial hit single, "Society's Child", about a forbidden interracial romance that reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for its significance to American music history. Ian is perhaps most recognized for her 1975 Chart-topping hit song, "At Seventeen", which not only won her two Grammys, sold over a million copies; but led to a period of unbridled success that gave her number one records in every Western country and landed her as the first musical guest on the inaugural broadcast of Saturday Night Live. A 1993 comeback with the album Breaking Silence marked a personal road marker that also earned her a ninth Grammy.

Livingston Taylor is the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor and a faculty member at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music. He picked up his first guitar at the age of thirteen, beginning a forty-year career that has encompassed performance, songwriting and teaching. From top-forty hits “I Will Be in Love with You” and “I’ll Come Running,” to “I Can Dream of You” and “Boatman” both recorded by his brother James; Livingston’s creative output has continued unabated. His musical knowledge has inspired a varied repertoire, and he is equally at home with a range of musical genres—folk, pop, gospel, jazz—and from upbeat storytelling to touching ballads.