Loving Janis

‘Loving Janis’ is a narrative concert that explores the lives and music of both Janis Joplin and Janis Ian.

Kyra on the making of Loving Janis

The show is imagined and performed by Kyra Gordon, featuring highly creative arrangements, and the guitar playing of internationally recognized recording artist Mimi Fox. Serving as the singer and the storyteller, Gordon takes the audience through the fascinating careers of both these amazing artists, and discusses them through the lens of how they inspired and shaped her own unconventional creative path.

Loving Janis features very well known songs, yet reinterpreted, such as ‘Piece of my Heart’, ‘Bobby McGee’, and ‘At Seventeen’, as well as lesser known cuts by both Joplin and Ian like ‘Trouble in Mind’ and ‘New York in the Springtime’.