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News Articles: Rhiannon Giddens

Attendees watch and dance as New Dangerfield performs during the Biscuit & Banjos festival in Durham, N.C., on April 26.

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Rhiannon Giddens' new music festival celebrates Black music, art, culture in N.C.

Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens brings Biscuits & Banjos, a music festival that features Black musicians on guitars, fiddles and banjos, history, dancing and more, to Durham, N.C.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Cornell Watson and
  • Emily Bogle
Between founding the string and jug band Carolina Chocolate Drops and winning a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur grant, Rhiannon Giddens has become one of folk music's foremost advocates for understanding the crucial role of Black musicians in the history of American roots music. This weekend, a North Carolina-based festival that she curated, Biscuits & Banjos, will feature dozens of Black artists performing and speaking on panels about their experiences in the genre.

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  • Music

Carolina to 'Cowboy Carter' and back: A celebration of Black roots music finds a home

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Jewly Hight
Rhiannon Giddens performs at "A New York Evening With Rhiannon Giddens" at the National Sawdust in New York City on Aug. 17, 2023.

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Rhiannon Giddens is the latest artist to cancel Kennedy Center gig

Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert — originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center — to a different venue in Washington, D.C.

February 28, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards on April 1. Her new album is "Carter Country" and it features a banjo on the hit song "Texas Hold 'Em." At right: a gourd banjo was an early American incarnation of an instrument that originated in Africa and was played by African Americans.

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  • Music

The banjo is a star of Beyoncé's new album. Turns out it has African roots

In "Texas Hold 'Em," the singer is accompanied by a banjo. It's often thought of as a quintessential Americana instrument. But the history of the banjo tells a different story.

April 05, 2024
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By:
  • Aaron Cohen
Rhiannon Giddens performs at 'A New York Evening With Rhiannon Giddens' at National Sawdust on August 17, 2023 in New York City. In this interview with NPR's Michel Martin, she reflects on her new album and more.

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Rhiannon Giddens is searching for a 'little bit of joy to bounce into'

Rhiannon Giddens has won Grammys, a Pulitzer prize for her opera Omar, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She's composed music for ballet and video games. And her new album is called You're the One.

August 21, 2023
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By:
  • Kaity Kline,
  • Michel Martin,
  • and 1 more
Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe, center, is congratulated Monday by staff sports columnist Rick Cleveland, right, after winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, as her mother, Bethel Wolfe, left, observes, at a celebration in Jackson, Miss. Wolfe was honored for her reporting on a $77 million welfare scandal, the largest embezzlement of federal funds in Mississippi's history.

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  • Arts & Life

Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera <em>Omar</em><em></em>, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C. at Spoleto Festival USA.

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  • Arts & Life

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

June 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera <em>Omar</em><em></em>, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C. at Spoleto Festival USA.

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  • Arts & Life

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

June 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas

On Second Thought For Monday, October 23, 2017

This year a federal court in Chicago ruled for the first time that workers can’t be fired based on sexual orientation, extending workplace protections...

October 24, 2017
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By:
  • Emily Cureton ,
  • Sean Powers ,
  • and 3 more
Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens On Telling The Stories Of African Americans

We talk with singer and songwriter Rhiannon Giddens , who is best known as the lead vocalist with the string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She’s...

May 05, 2017
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers

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