Rhiannon Giddens sings the kind of music that people in the United States need to hear. Last weekend, violent white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Charlottesville and across the country, partly ...

Rhiannon Giddens is a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who also happens to be a classically trained opera singer. Having grown up in North Carolina, she’s now on a mission to re-frame the history ...

What motivated you to photograph this event? Watson: Between Beyoncé's album Cowboy Carter and 803Fresh's song "Boots on the Ground," it's not hard to notice that Black people are rediscovering joy in ...

MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Musician Rhiannon Giddens is on a quest. And the facts of her own life are a compelling metaphor for the path she's forging. Born in 1977 to a Black mother and a white father, ...

There is an intensity to Rhiannon Giddens I could feel from the moment she arrived at the Tiny Desk, and her songs reflect that spirit. "Ten Thousand Voices," the first song in the set, was inspired ...

Rhiannon Giddens sounded understandably giddy the morning after receiving her 2022 Pulitzer Prize for music in New York two weeks ago. But the source of her giddiness wasn’t this banjo-playing singer ...

Rhiannon Giddens speaks onstage during the 67th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony at Peacock Theater on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Rhiannon Giddens ...

Durham has a brand new festival to get excited about in 2025. Biscuits & Banjos, a festival curated by Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning North Carolina legend Rhiannon Giddens is taking place April 25 ...

The musicians reflect on their roots as country artists and why the genre they love is at a turning point Left: Giddens by Serena Brown/ The New York Times/ Redux. Right: Spencer by Catherine Powell ...

Rhiannon Giddens is maxed out. She recently spent a weekend in Knoxville, Tenn., performing a series of concerts with Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile. She has a new album, her first collection of ...

The Grammy-winning folk singer and Emmy-nominated composer behind 'Get Out' joined forces to create 'Omar,' which tells the story of Omar ibn Said, who in 1807 was forced to leave his home in Africa ...