Rhiannon Giddens, flying solo following her decade-long run with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, started 2017 with two Grammy nominations. She wasn't expecting them. Giddens' Factory Girl received a ...

Rhiannon Giddens co-composed and wrote the libretto for the opera “Omar,” chronicling the life of Omar ibn Said. Rhiannon Giddens won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for "Omar," an opera she co-composed with ...

Joined by her live band, Giddens took the stage with a banjo in hand, picking away at the instrumental opening of the song. “You Louisiana Man” opens with rousing fiddle and banjo before Giddens ...

Giddens' banjo and viola are featured on Beyoncé's new country album. We listen back to a 2010 interview and in-studio performance by Giddens and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. This is FRESH AIR. I'm ...

A 10-part limited series from Wondrium has the celebrated performer exploring the little-recognized historical roots of the banjo... and its tangled journey as the quintessential American instrument ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. In today's era, the internet is awash with visual content that is ...

Rhiannon Giddens’s recent work has been weighing on her. Since 2019, the folk polymath co-composed the opera Omar based on a slave memoir (and won the Pulitzer Prize for it), worked on multiple ...

The opera “OMAR,” which gets its New England debut with the Boston Lyric Opera on Thursday night, tells the true story of Omar ibn Said, an Islamic scholar in the 19th century who was captured, ...

Rhiannon Giddens' new album You're the One has been in the works for 14 years – an impressive achievement. But then again, it's hard to think of something she can't do. The Grammy award-winning ...