Rhiannon Giddens
Artist Bio
Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. She was nominated this year for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019), an album that is at once a condemnation of “othering” and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience. She has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series Nashville. Giddens has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS last fall. In 2019, Giddens also formed the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players and contributed to and produced their album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival.
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10/16/2020
Rhiannon Giddens covers Woody Guthrie’s “All You Fascists Bound To Lose” with Resistance Revival Chorus
Resistance Revival Chorus SHARE SONG & VIDEO “ALL YOU FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE ”ft. RHIANNON GIDDENS THIS JOY OUT OCTOBER 16TH VIA RIGHTEOUS BABE Race hatred cannot stop us, this…
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09/30/2020
RHIANNON GIDDENS RECREATES HER TRENCHANT SONG “CRY NO MORE” WITH COMPOSER MICHAEL ABELS (GET OUT), MEMBERS OF THE MET OPERA CHORUS AND NASHVILLE BALLET
RHIANNON GIDDENS RECREATES HER TRENCHANT SONG “CRY NO MORE” WITH COMPOSER MICHAEL ABELS (GET OUT), MEMBERS OF THE MET OPERA CHORUS AND NASHVILLE BALLET WATCH HERE Rhiannon Giddens has teamed…
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09/11/2020
Rhiannon Giddens Releases Collaboration With Amanda Palmer: “It’s A Fire” Cover
Amanda Palmer and Rhiannon Giddens have joined forces for a moving musical collaboration this month. The cover of Portishead's much adored It's A Fire was recorded from several continents enduring…
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