Rhiannon Giddens is on a mission, make that several missions. Whether it’s setting to music the story of a West African scholar sold into slavery or bringing to light the true history of the banjo, ...
“You brought me here to build your house; to build your house, to build your house” is the phrase that opens Rhiannon Giddens’ first children’s book, “Build a House,” as well as the song that inspired ...
Silkroad, the acclaimed international musical collective with a social conscience, has a new face â and a fresh sense of purpose. Grammy-winning folk singer and instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens is ...
One of the performers on Beyonce's new album is Rhiannon Giddens, a singer, songwriter, violinist and banjo player. Giddens has won two Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and was a MacArthur Genius Grant ...
On November 9, at the Granada Theatre, Giddens arrives as director of the storied and definitively multicultural Silkroad Ensemble, under the aegis of UCSB Arts & Lectures. This special event, the ...
A renowned banjo player and a 2000 graduate of Oberlin College, Giddens has had quite the recent five-year run. Credit: (Ebru Yildiz/Submitted) Rhiannon Giddens is on her way to Tucson this month. She ...
Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Rhiannon Giddens tells the story of working class people through her music — one she describes on her last solo album in 2023, “You’re the One,” as “American” music, ...