Rhiannon Giddens brings banjo and Black music history to the Bowl

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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, […]

Rhiannon Giddens Says She Felt She Had To ‘Compromise’ In Order To Play On Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’

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Getty Image Beyoncé’s latest studio album Cowboy Carter is a Grammy Award record-setting project. Outside of the accolades, Cowboy Carter helped to further the careers of many of the musicians featured on it–including Shaboozey, Tanner […]

Rhiannon Giddens Announces New LP ‘You’re the One,’ Shares Title Track

Rhiannon Giddens Announces New LP 'You're the One,' Shares Title Track

Photo by Ebru Yildiz Rhiannon Giddens, the Grammy, MacArthur and now Pulitzer-winning singer, composer and instrumentalist, is set to release her third solo studio album titled You’re the One on Aug. 18 via Nonesuch Records. […]

How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels made ‘Omar’ at LA Opera

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Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was captured and sold into slavery for decades in the Carolinas. His memoir, written in Arabic, brims with quotations […]