Rhiannon Giddens is down at the river, carrying a flame of heritage, and she’s inviting anyone who wants to join her to come down and light their own wicks. Rivers are traditionally sites of salvation ...

“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 shelf behind her.

“Texas Hold ‘Em” was the world’s first introduction to Beyoncé’s highly anticipated and equally divisive country crossover album, Cowboy Carter, and that introduction was ushered in by a plucky banjo ...

There could probably be no better evangelist for anything than the immensely respected Rhiannon Giddens, and the banjo is lucky to have her. The singer and multi-instrumentalist has been spreading the ...

That may not be an immediate rib-tickler for everyone, but it counts as one for anyone who has followed Giddens just enough to know that reclaiming the banjo as a Black instrument has been a mission ...

“Well, hello. I’d like to welcome you all to our magical traveling porch,” said Rhiannon Giddens, taking the stage at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall last month. “What we are doing tonight is creating a ...

How talented and versatile is Rhiannon Giddens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” album? A co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, ...

Silkroad Ensemble performs with leader Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and vocals during Winter JazzFest Brooklyn Marathon at Music ...

Welcome to my porch, the eclectic singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens announced at the start of American Tunes, a trip through the past and present of American roots music she’d created for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was a good share of on-stage comedy happening at Rhiannon Giddens’ all-star roots music night Wednesday at the Hollywood ...