Classical music, garden trails, outdoor (and indoor) plays and classic rock: There are so many ways to celebrate summer this week in Central New York. The season of summer festivals continues with the ...

The University Musical Society (UMS) at the University of Michigan has announced its 147th season, featuring more than 50 eclectic performances across 2025 and 2026. Those include Rhiannon Giddens, an ...

*BRIC is pleased to announce that celebrated Americana singer Rhiannon Giddens will headline a free concert at the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival (Prospect Park Bandshell, 9thSt. & ...

“I’m interested in the throughline. That’s always what I’m interested in.” Rhiannon Giddens is speaking from her home office in Ireland, stacks of books and skeins of yarn piled on a shelf behind her.

Adia Victoria (right) and Mason Hickman (left) perform at the Pinhook during the first Biscuit & Banjos music festival on Friday, April 25, 2025, in Durham. “Everything Rhiannon Giddens touches turns ...

Rhiannon Giddens is down at the river, carrying a flame of heritage, and she’s inviting anyone who wants to join her to come down and light their own wicks. Rivers are traditionally sites of salvation ...

How talented and versatile is Rhiannon Giddens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” album? A co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, ...

When Beyoncé teased her country-tinged album Cowboy Carter last February, the first sound anyone heard was Rhiannon Giddens’ banjo. Giddens, who lent her distinctive instrument to the single “Texas ...

"If you're going to do something that's been covered a million times, you want to do it differently," Giddens says of her funky version of "Black... Push It Further: Rhiannon Giddens Takes A Turn On ...