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Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the country , blues , and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops , where she was the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.
The idea for Our Native Daughters was conceived by Giddens whose previous album, Freedom Highway, dealt with slavery and the Civil Rights Era. [4] The project was inspired by two experiences. The first was a visit she made with her seven-year-old daughter to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington ...
Formed in November 2005, following the members' attendance at the first Black Banjo Gathering, held in Boone, North Carolina, in April 2005, the group grew out of the success of Sankofa Strings, an ensemble that featured Dom Flemons on bones, jug, guitar, and four-string banjo, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle and Súle Greg Wilson on bodhrán, brushes, washboard, bones, tambourine, banjo ...
Rhiannon Giddens defends the Black roots of country music: ‘We keep having to tell the story’
Rhiannon Giddens will perform at Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium next week.
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Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes is an album produced by T Bone Burnett featuring a collective of musicians recording under the moniker The New Basement Tapes—Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford.
They're Calling Me Home is the second collaborative album by American singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens and Italian composer Francesco Turrisi, released through Nonesuch Records on April 9, 2021. It received acclaim from critics and won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album at the 2022 Grammy Awards .