Janine Nichols has been producing live music in New York for many years. Lately she’s been creating ambitious, thematic, multi-artist concept shows with Hal Willner at venues around the world. A performance at the Sydney Opera House of “Came So Far For Beauty,” their evening of Leonard Cohen’s songs, was the basis for the acclaimed 2006 documentary I’m Your Man. Janine was program director for Arts at St. Ann’s (now St. Ann’s Warehouse) for fifteen years; before that, music coordinator for the original cast of Saturday Night Live. She is also the “arrestingly plaintive” (as the Village Voice stated) singer in the “sublime” (as Nick Cave put it) electric bass and voice duo Flutterbox.