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Rhiannon Giddens

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.American Tune
    2. 2.Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten cover)

  2. Our Native Daughters

    1. 3.Moon Meets Sun (Our Native Daughters cover)
    2. 4.Quasheba, Quasheba (Our Native Daughters cover)
    3. 5.I Knew I Could Fly (Our Native Daughters cover)
    4. 6.Polly Ann's Hammer (Our Native Daughters cover)
    5. 7.The Sun Without the Heat (Our Native Daughters cover)
    6. 8.You're Not Alone (Our Native Daughters cover)
    7. 9.Black Myself (Our Native Daughters cover)

  3. Alison Brown

    1. 10.Girls' Breakdown (Al Stewart cover)
    2. 11.I Can Play The Banjo (Steve Martin cover)
    3. 12.Five Days Out and Two Days Back
    4. 13.Cluck Old Hen ([traditional] cover)
    1. 1.Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten cover)
    2. 2.High on a Mountain (Ola Belle Reed cover)
    3. 3.Dimanche Après-Midi ([traditional] cover)
    4. 4.Quoi faire (Canray Fontenot cover)
    5. 5.Shoot That Buffalo (Elizabeth Cotten cover)
    6. 6.Somewhere Between (Merle Haggard cover)
    7. 7.At the Purchaser's Option
    8. 8.Pipi Danga ((Traditional Congolese song sung in Linga))
    9. 9.Red Bird Road (Dirk Powell cover)
    1. 1.Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten cover)
    2. 2.Georgia Buck (Joe and Tommy Thompson cover)
    3. 3.High on a Mountain (Ola Belle Reed cover)
    4. 4.Dimanche Après-Midi / Quoi faire (Dirk Powell sings)
    5. 5.Western Nigerian song - Justin Robinson sings
    6. 6.hip-hop song - Demeanor sings
    7. 7.Somewhere Between (Merle Haggard cover) (Amelia Powell sings)
    8. 8.Old Corn Liquor
    9. 9.Bonsoir Moreau (Dirk Powell sings)
    10. 10.blues song - "step away, I've got my soul in my hands"
    11. 11.Shoot That Buffalo (Elizabeth Cotten cover) (Justin Robinson sings)
    12. 12.Red Bird Road (Dirk Powell cover) (Dirk and Amelia Powell sing)
    13. 13.Marching Jaybird (Etta Baker cover)
    14. 14.Pipi Danga
    15. 15.At the Purchaser's Option
    16. 16.God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign (The Carter Family cover)

  2. Encore

    1. 17.We Could Fly
    1. 1.Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten cover)
    2. 2.Georgia Buck (Joe and Tommy Thompson cover)
    3. 3.High on a Mountain (Ola Belle Reed cover)
    4. 4.Dimanche Après-Midi ([traditional] cover)
    5. 5.Quoi faire (Canray Fontenot cover)
    6. 6.West Nigerian song sung in Yoruba by Justin Robinson
    7. 7.Rap song sung by Demeanor
    8. 8.Somewhere Between (Merle Haggard cover)
    9. 9.Shoot That Buffalo (Elizabeth Cotten cover)
    10. 10.Red Bird Road (Dirk Powell cover)
    11. 11.Marching Jaybird (Etta Baker cover)
    12. 12.Pipi Danga (Traditional Congolese song sung in Linga)
    13. 13.At the Purchaser's Option
    14. 14.Birmingham Sunday
    15. 15.Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Robert Robinson cover)
    16. 16.Rain Crow
    17. 17.Something “…for Christmas” - Couldn’t hear song intro well

  2. Encore

    1. 18.“House” was part of the title. A square dance song.
    1. 1.Libba Cotton
    2. 2.Joe Tune
    3. 3.High on a Mountain (Ola Belle Reed cover)
    4. 4.Creole Tunes
    5. 5.Laye
    6. 6.At the Purchaser's Option
    7. 7.Pompey
    8. 8.Polyphia
    9. 9.Swannanoa Tunnel (The Traditional Fools cover)
    10. 10.Red Bird Road (Dirk Powell cover)
    11. 11.Marching Jaybird (Etta Baker cover)
    12. 12.Low Bass Square Dance
    13. 13.Somewhere Between (Merle Haggard cover)
    14. 14.We Could Fly
    15. 15.God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign (The Carter Family cover)
    16. 16.Cluck Ol' Hen / Unknown Instrumental

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Rhiannon Giddens plays live at Vicar Street, Dublin.

She performs live in Dublin on 25 February 2024.