Conversation and Performance: Rhiannon Giddens
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum 222 5th Ave S, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Courtesy of Ebru Yildiz
Rhiannon Giddens is a Grammy-winning singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Rhiannon Giddens is a Grammy-winning singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. She first gained fame as a member of the acclaimed stringband Carolina Chocolate Drops and since 2014 has pursued a variety of musical projects, including as a member of Our Native Daughters and as a collaborator with Italian musician Francesco Turrisi on They’re Calling Me Home, winner of the 2021 Grammy for Best Folk Album. Much of Giddens’s work explores Black musicians’ contributions to country music and other American roots-music traditions. She is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" and a Pulitzer Prize for "Omar" a 2022 opera she co-wrote about an African Muslim enslaved in antebellum Charleston. Her latest album You’re the One will be released in August. The museum’s writer-editor Patrick Huber will lead the conversation with Giddens, who will also briefly perform. Offered in support of the museum's exhibition American Currents: State of the Music.
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