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Rhiannon Giddens

February 2024

  • Beyoncé in cover artwork for her song 16 Carriages.

    Black artistry is woven into the fabric of country music. It belongs to everyone

    Rhiannon Giddens
    With Beyoncé becoming the first Black woman to top the US country charts, musician Rhiannon Giddens, who plays banjo and viola on Texas Hold ’Em, explains how capitalism and racism warped the genre

August 2022

  • Grange Hill The Reunion for BBC. Erkan Mustafa Simone Nylander Todd Carty Lee MacDonald

    The week in audio: The Reunion: Grange Hill; The Blues Show With Ronnie Wood; Black Roots and more

    It’s back to the playground for Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond and its stars, while Ronnie Wood tells the one about Chuck Berry’s trousers

December 2021

  • From left: John Francis Flynn; Rhiannon Giddens and Francisco Turrisi; Yasmin Williams.

    Best music of 2021
    The 10 best folk albums of 2021

    From Doran’s intimate take on Appalachian and eastern European music to Welsh-Indian collab Khasi-Cymru Collective, and John Francis Flynn’s folk-horror vibrations

April 2021

  • Astonishing levels of beauty and control ... Francesco Turrisi and Rhiannon Giddens.

    Folk album of the month
    Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi: They’re Calling Me Home review – big, beautiful laments

    From lockdown in Ireland, Giddens and Turrisi range across folk traditions on exceptional covers and originals

November 2019

  • Rhiannon Giddens (right) and Francesco Turrisi (left) performing in Wormwood Scrubs chapel.

    Wormwood Scrubs blues: inside the gig mixing prisoners with the free

    As part of London jazz festival, Rhiannon Giddens performed in the chapel at Wormwood Scrubs prison – supported by a choir of inmates

May 2019

  • Rhiannon Giddens (right) and Francesco Turrisi Press publicity portrait supplied by PR Credit: Karen Cox

    Folk album of the month
    Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi: There Is No Other review – a folk landmark

    Stellar folk musician joins forces with Italian multi-instrumentalist to connect African and Arabic sounds with traditional forms – it’s stunning

February 2019

  • Our Native Daughters (from left): Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah.

    Rhiannon Giddens: ‘I see this album as part of a movement to reclaim black female history’

  • Our Native Daughters.

    Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters review – devastating beauty from banjo supergroup

August 2018

  • Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 - Day 3<br>Rhiannon Giddens performs at the Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 - Day 3 - held at Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge on Saturday August 4th 2018

    Cambridge folk festival review – verve and energy in a female-focused weekend

    Rhiannon Giddens, Patti Smith and First Aid Kit kicked up a storm, but with mellower moments from the likes of Eric Bibb and Darlingside this was a wide-ranging and happy festival

July 2018

  • ‘I’m not here to be famous’ … Rhiannon Giddens.

    'White people are so fragile, bless 'em' … meet Rhiannon Giddens, banjo warrior

    She pours fire and fury into powerful songs that target everything from police shootings to slavery. The musician reveals all about her mission to put the black back into bluegrass – and Shakespeare

December 2017

  • Jammy, Rhiannon Giddens and Andrew Savage: responsible for some of the best tracks of the past year.

    Secret sounds: the best songs you didn't hear in 2017

    Guardian writers pick their ones that got away this year, from mournful Swedish house music to sun-drenched soul

November 2017

  • Rhiannon Giddens at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Friday.

    Rhiannon Giddens review – contagious delight and furious defiance

    From slavery to the civil rights struggle, Giddens’s material covers solemn material but her history lessons are thrilling and delivered with pure enjoyment

April 2017

  • Copyright Sarah Lee - The Cambridge Folk Festival 2015. More detailed captions to follow but I’m filing these at 4.30am after two of the longest days ever and am abotu to pass out. Rhiannon Giddens

    Rhiannon Giddens review – a virtuoso slice of Americana

    Factory Theatre, Sydney
    A great selection of new songs rooted in Southern traditions, plus some stirring covers, make for a magnificent set

February 2017

  • Vivid stories from the slavery era … Rhiannon Giddens.

    Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway review – powerful and timely

  • Rhiannon Giddens

    Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway review – timely and arresting

December 2016

  • iTunes Festival: Ryan Adams Perform At The Roundhouse<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Ryan Adams performs live on stage as part of the iTunes Festival at The Roundhouse on September 21, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/WireImage)

    10 Americana albums to look forward to in 2017

    From Ryan Adams to Rose Cousins by way of Dead Man Winter, next year promises sets to delight and excite in equal measure

April 2016

  • Rhiannon Giddens performing at the Cambridge folk festival.

    Rhiannon Giddens, Unthanks and Young'uns take top honours in BBC Folk awards

    Event showcases dynamic new wave of folk musicians, while honouring lifetime achievements of Norma Waterson and Joan Armatrading

August 2015

  • Rhiannon Giddens, ex-Carolina Chocolate Drops

    The playlist
    The playlist: world, blues and folk – Rhiannon Giddens, Buddy Guy, Wilko Johnson and more

  • Rhiannon Giddens at the Cambridge folk festival

    Cambridge folk festival review – Rhiannon Giddens ‘just beautiful’

February 2015

  • Rhiannon Giddens

    Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow Is My Turn review – phenomenal vocal power

    Old numbers are infused with vitality on a solo debut that showcases the full range of the American musician’s gifts, writes Neil Spencer
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