In 2020, Giddens was named artistic director ... who desperately wants to talk about the banjo. There’s a joke Rhiannon Giddens often tells audiences during her shows — though maybe it ...

Acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens spent years perfecting a flawless recipe for the iconic Southern food. Now, a new ...

Rhiannon Giddens is maxed out ... “Banjo,” for the streaming service Wondrium. In 2020, she inherited Yo-Yo Ma’s mantle as artistic director of Silkroad, a music project that smashes ...

Or so Italian percussionist Francesco Turrisi and critically-acclaimed folk artist Rhiannon Giddens argued before a packed crowd of more than 300 people at the Bechtel Conference Center this past ...

Rhiannon Giddens sounded understandably giddy the morning ... during which she explored the African roots of the banjo. In 2020, she succeeded famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the artistic director ...

IThe acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past ... Named Artistic Director of Silkroad in 2020, Giddens is developing a number of new programs for the organization, ...

There could probably be no better evangelist for anything than the immensely respected Rhiannon Giddens, and the banjo is lucky to have her. The singer and multi-instrumentalist has been spreading ...

The Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens has long ... of the United States in the 19th century. Giddens introduced the project in 2020 as she stepped into the role of artistic ...

The Center for the Arts and Humanities welcomes Rhiannon Giddens, the 2019-2021 Frank Sinatra Artist-in-Residence, and guests Francesco Turrisi and Justin Harrington. Multi-instrumentalist and ...

In the case of Rhiannon Giddens, the term would be drastically ... for an opera for which she won a Pulitzer Prize for Music (2020’s “Omar”). And that doesn’t include stints hosting ...

This in-depth exploration began in 2020 with artist retreats and site ... Carrying over from last year's tour are Rhiannon Giddens's arrangement of “Swannanoa Tunnel”—a work song from ...

Singer Rhiannon Giddens performs onstage during AMERICANAFEST’s Pre-GRAMMY Salute to Willie Nelson at The Troubadour on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson ...