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The acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ recipient, Giddens co-founded the Grammy® Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and she has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as a soloist and collaborator. She was most recently nominated for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, There Is no Other (2019). Giddens’s latest album, They’re Calling Me Home, is a twelve-track album, recorded with Turrisi in Ireland during the recent lockdown; it speaks of the longing for the comfort of home as well as the metaphorical “call home” of death, which has been a tragic reality for so many during the COVID-19 crisis.

Giddens’s lifelong mission is to lift up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Pitchfork has said of her work, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.”

Among her many diverse career highlights, Giddens has performed for the Obamas at the White House, served as a Carnegie Hall Perspectives curator, and received an inaugural Legacy of Americana Award from Nashville’s National Museum of African American History in partnership with the Americana Music Association. Her critical acclaim includes in-depth profiles by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among many others.

Giddens is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS in 2019, where she speaks about the African American origins of country music. She is also a member of the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell, and Amythyst Kiah, and co-produced their debut album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival.

Named ‘Artistic Director’ of Silkroad in 2020, Giddens is developing a number of new programs for the organization, including one inspired by the history of the American transcontinental railroad and the cultures and music of its builders. She recently wrote the music for an original ballet, Lucy Negro Redux, for Nashville Ballet (premiered in 2019), and the libretto and music for an original opera, Omar, based on the autobiography of the enslaved man Omar Ibn Said for the Spoleto USA Festival.

As an actor, Giddens had a featured role on the television series Nashville.

Setlists

    1. 1.Georgia Buck (Joe and Tommy Thompson cover)
    2. 2.Sitting on Top of the World (Trąd cover)
    3. 3.At the Purchaser's Option
    4. 4.Following the North Star
    5. 5.Shake Sugaree (Elizabeth Cotten cover)
    6. 6.Instrumental tunes
    7. 7.I Ain’t Playing Pretty Polly (Dirk Powell cover)
    8. 8.Jack of Diamonds (Trąd cover)
    9. 9.High on a Mountain (Ola Belle Reed cover)
    10. 10.Dimanche après-midi (The Creole Song) ([traditional] cover)
    11. 11.Swannanoa Tunnel (The Traditional Fools cover)
    12. 12.She's Got You (Patsy Cline cover)
    13. 13.Somewhere Between (Merle Haggard cover)
    14. 14.Waterbound
    15. 15.We Could Fly
    16. 16.Lights in the Valley (Trąd cover)
    1. 1.The Love We Almost Had
    2. 2.At the Purchaser's Option
    3. 3.You Louisiana Man
    4. 4.If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is
    5. 5.Shake Sugaree (Elizabeth Cotten cover)
    6. 6.Yet to Be
    7. 7.Up Above My Head ([traditional] cover)
    1. 1.Instrumental
    2. 2.The Love We Almost Had
    3. 3.Wrong Kind of Right
    4. 4.Dimanche après-midi (The Creole Song) ([traditional] cover)
    5. 5.Quoi faire (Canray Fontenot cover)
    6. 6.Come Love Come
    7. 7.You Louisiana Man
    8. 8.Briggs' Forró
    9. 9.If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is
    10. 10.Another Wasted Life
    11. 11.(Unknown)
    12. 12.Backbone
    13. 13.We Could Fly
    14. 14.Cluck Ol' Hen / Unknown Instrumental
    15. 15.Hen in the Foxhouse
    16. 16.Yet to Be

  2. Encore

    1. 17.Up Above My Head ([traditional] cover)
    1. 1.instrumental, Dirk: fiddle, Francesco: accordion
    2. 2.The Love We Almost Had (Dirk: keyboard)
    3. 3.Wrong Kind of Right (Dirk: electric guitar)
    4. 4.Dimanche après-midi (The Creole Song) ([traditional] cover) (Dirk: vocals, button accordion)
    5. 5.Quoi faire (Canray Fontenot cover) (Dirk: vocals, button accordion)
    6. 6.Come Love Come (Charly: background vocals)
    7. 7.You Louisiana Man (Rhiannon: banjo, Dirk: fiddle, Charly: background vocals)
    8. 8.Briggs' Forró (Rhiannon: banjo, Francesco: accordion, Dirk: fiddle)
    9. 9.If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is (Dirk: acoustic guitar)
    10. 10.Who Are You Dreaming Of (Dirk: keyboard, Francesco: Hammond organ)
    11. 11.Another Wasted Life (with Rhiannon's nephew (Demir?) rapping)
    12. 12.Niwel Goes to Town (>)
    13. 13.Song by guitarist Niwel Tsumbu, Niwel on lead vocals
    14. 14.Backbone (Charly Lowry cover)
    15. 15.We Could Fly (Dirk: acoustic guitar)
    16. 16.Cluck Ol' Hen / Unknown Instrumental
    17. 17.Yet to Be (followed by Unknown Instrumental??)

  2. Encore

    1. 18.The Lonesome Road / Up Above My Head (Sister Rosetta Tharpe cover)
    1. 1.Following the North Star
    2. 2.The Love We Almost Had
    3. 3.Wrong Kind of Right
    4. 4.Dimanche après-midi (The Creole Song) ([traditional] cover) (>)
    5. 5.Quoi faire (Canray Fontenot cover)
    6. 6.Come Love Come (Charly: background vocals)
    7. 7.You Louisiana Man
    8. 8.Briggs' Forró
    9. 9.If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is
    10. 10.Another Wasted Life
    11. 11.Niwel Goes to Town (>)
    12. 12.Song by guitarist Niwel Tsumbu, Niwel on lead vocals
    13. 13.Backbone
    14. 14.We Could Fly
    15. 15.Cluck Old Hen ([traditional] cover)
    16. 16.Hen in the Foxhouse
    17. 17.Yet to Be

  2. Encore

    1. 18.The Lonesome Road (Gene Austin cover) (>)
    2. 19.Up Above My Head ([traditional] cover)

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