Conversation and Performance: Rhiannon Giddens
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Aug 12, 2023 12pm - 1pm
Location
Ford Theater
Details
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.
