The first episode of Saturday Night Live aired in October 1975. Its host was George Carlin, and its musical guests were Billy Preson and Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had a hit at the time with ...

Grammywinning singersongwriter and folkrock icon Janis Ian connects with her audience in this intimate live concert filmed at the Club Café in Pittsburgh A memorable set list of tracks highlights ...

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

As “Saturday Night Live” turns 50 years old, NBC News’ Joe Fryer speaks with the show’s first-ever musical performer, Janis Ian, about her experience on “SNL.” The “SNL” 50 special show will air in ...

On one of their visits, Janis Ian took Berea College President Lyle Roelofs to her studio. There he saw a photo of “a very young” Ian sitting at a grand piano. “Looking over her shoulder at the music ...

Janis Ian’s music brought her from Central Jersey to the world. It’s a sonic journey that included landmark compositions such as “Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking)” in 1966, “Stars” in 1974 ...

Janis Ian’s initiation into rock ‘n’ roll was early and dramatic. In 1966, at the age of 15, she recorded Society’s Child, a song she’d written about an interracial romance. It raced up the charts and ...

Even if you don’t count yourself has a diehard Janis Ian fan, the singer-songwriter’s songs, such as her 1967 hit “Society’s Child,” when they appear in Varda Bar-Kar’s compelling bio-doc, Janis Ian: ...