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 ...

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

The important pieces [are] about what music is and what it does for a community, what it does for people and what it does for humanity,” Rhiannon Giddens said.

Twenty years after the Carolina Chocolate Drops emerged from the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone ... including sounds of birds and cicadas – as Giddens and Robinson sit face to face playing and singing ...

“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 ...

Rhiannon Giddens has achieved ... There's a Lady on Stage series, Giddens will perform alongside Justin Robinson (vocals, fiddle and banjo), Dirk Powell (vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...