ronnie gilbert

ADRIENNE TORF joins RONNIE GILBERT in a double bill of story-telling, music and song.

Humor, pathos and sumptuous piano artistry turn this account of adoptee ADRIENNE TORF's search for genetic identity into a tour de force. Stymied time and again by unanswerable questions about her family medical history and curious about her musical gifts, ADY embarks on a quest for her birth parentage. As if listening to a detective story, we follow her from agency to agency, file to file, from hope to frustration and back again, while she pursues an elusive woman who may or may not be her birth mother. ADY plays exerpts from her award winning CDs VIEW FROM THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE and BOTH HANDS OPEN.


Not quite a concert, a lecture or a theater piece, RONNIE GILBERT's "A RADICAL LIFE WITH SONGS" is "an offbeat, thoroughly engaging evening of autobiography." RONNIE's song/talk is from her work-in-progress, memoirs of seven decades of singing, acting and activism.