While lutes and stringed instruments have been staples in cultures from around the world for thousands of years, the origins ...

When a musician of Rhiannon Giddens’ stature comes to perform in your town for the first time, a celebration is in order.

Singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has dedicated much of her career to exploring folk and roots ...

Inspired by long-lost folk melodies, gospel, opera and bluegrass, the electrifying singer and banjo player gives ... two singers are the same person: Rhiannon Giddens, an electrifying artist ...

GIDDENS: Me and Dom [Flemons] and Justin — the original Chocolate Drops — were at the Black Banjo Gathering, which was this thing that happened 20 years ago at Boone State University.

Rhiannon Giddens knew every Black string musician. The dedicated few were largely collaborators and colleagues, many of whom met a generation ago at the landmark Black Banjo Gathering in Boone ...

“I’m interested in the throughline. That’s always what I’m interested in.” Rhiannon Giddens is speaking from her home office in Ireland, stacks of books and skeins of yarn piled on a ...

Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens plays the banjo and viola ... on the hit song “Texas Hold ‘Em” playing banjo, an instrument created by enslaved Africans in ...

Rhiannon Giddens & the Old-Time Revue will play ... you know, 20 years ago… Playing fiddle and banjo together, it just feels really great,” she says. “He and I play together like we don ...

Singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has dedicated much of her ... to release the banjo-and-fiddle duo album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch).

Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens plays the banjo and viola on Beyoncé ... Fuller taught himself to play guitar and sing traditional country rag tunes on sidewalks ...