The musician Rhiannon Giddens has two major works that explore the contributions of immigrants, ‘Omar’ and ‘American Railroad,’ headed to the Bay Area this November. (Ebru Yildiz) Rhiannon Giddens has ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks to Rhiannon Giddens and Limmie Pulliam about their performance of "Omar" at Oberlin College's Finney Chapel as well as Cleveland's Maltz Preforming Arts Center. The story ...

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra will present “Omar’s Journey,” a concert opera adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1 and 2.

But anyone who doesn’t follow those whiffs of what she does all the way to the source is missing out on a lot on brilliance — whether it’s her virtuosity as a player, her skills as a genre-defying ...

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. By Carlo Rotella A new North Carolina festival founded by the musician Rhiannon Giddens highlighted Black string ...

The story of Omar ibn Said, a West African Muslim scholar who was brought to South Carolina as a slave, is not one that many know. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) RHIANNON GIDDENS: (As Julie, ...