The folk singer celebrates her 56-year career with one final tour that brings her to Rialto Theatre on Thursday, March 3.
Cathalena E. Burch When she takes the stage at the Rialto Theatre on Thursday, March 3, it will be Janis Ian’s last Tucson concert.
Ian, who kicked off the tour with four shows in Santa Fe, New Mexico, last week, is celebrating a career that started with 1966’s controversial song “Society’s Child” when she was 14 and ends with her months-old album “A Light At the End of the Line” 56 years later. Ian’s next chapter will find her doing something she has never quite had time to do until now: write.
“I would really like to spend a month off email. I would like to spend a month offline. I would like to walk on the beach without a phone,” she mused aloud of what retirement could look like. “And I would like to not have so many responsibilities.”