Official website for Grammy Award-winning Musician, MacArthur recipient and Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens.

Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue includes Carolina Chocolate Drops collaborator Justin Robinson, multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, guitarist Amelia Powell, and bones player and rapper Demeanor.

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Rhiannon Giddens reunites with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. Produced by Giddens and Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle, playing eighteen of their favorite North Carolina tunes.

Rhiannon Giddens reunites with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, an album of North Carolina fiddle and banjo music, out April 18 on Nonesuch Records. Produced by Giddens and Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle, with the duo ...

“ Only a musician like Giddens could have created “Omar,” for which she wrote the libretto and composed in recorded drafts — she sang and accompanied herself — that were then orchestrated by Abels, with an ear for subtle connections and propulsive drama. Their score, nimbly handled by the conductor John Kennedy and the Spoleto ...

Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music, with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities, into just about every field imaginable.

A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner, Giddens co-founded the GRAMMY Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and is now a two-time GRAMMY winner, with eight additional nominations for her work as a soloist and collaborator.

'American Railroad,' a new album from The Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, will be released November 15 on Nonesuch Records. The album is the culmination of four years of research, collaboration, and music-making, having brought Silkroad artists all across the United States to uncove

The Carolina Chocolate drops were an innovative black string band founded in 2006. The original members — Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, with assists from Sule Greg Wilson — spent a lot of time with the revered string band elder Joe Thompson, an 86-year-old fiddler from Mebane, North Carolina.