Rhiannon Giddens Illustrates “Color Me Country: A Celebration of Black Women Who Shaped Country Music” — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

The book, edited by Kelly McCartney and Rissi Palmer, pays tribute to Black women in the music industry, including Linda ...

Singer Rhiannon Giddens to illustrate children’s book celebrating Black women in country music

Rhiannon Giddens announces new children’s book celebrating the various contributions Black women have made to country music.
Indy Week

For Rhiannon Giddens, Music Is All About the Throughline

“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.
Uproxx

Rhiannon Giddens Says She Felt She Had To ‘Compromise’ In Order To Play On Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’

Beyoncé’s latest studio album Cowboy Carter is a Grammy Award record-setting project. Outside of the accolades, Cowboy Carter helped to further the careers of many of the musicians featured on ...
Rolling Stone

Rhiannon Giddens Has Complicated Feelings About Playing on ‘Cowboy Carter’

When Beyoncé teased her country-tinged album Cowboy Carter last February, the first sound anyone heard was Rhiannon Giddens’ banjo. Giddens, who lent her distinctive instrument to the single “Texas ...
PBS

Rhiannon Giddens - Music of the American Underclass, What Really Made America Great

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Rhiannon Giddens Announces Biscuits & Banjos, a Black Roots Music Festival Set for Durham in 2025

Celebrated singer. songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens announced Tuesday that she will be headlining and curating a festival of her own making, Biscuits & Banjos, celebrating Black ...
Yahoo

Rhiannon Giddens is ready to meet a major moment of revival in Black music history, with banjo in hand

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 ...
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Rhiannon Giddens defends the Black roots of country music: ‘We keep having to tell the story’

On theGrio’s “Writing Black’” podcast, award-winning musician and Beyoncé collaborator Rhiannon Giddens explains why country music was co-founded by Black creativity. “I was just really frustrated ...
Dallas Observer

Rhiannon Giddens Synthesized the Best of American Music at the Longhorn Ballroom

The night was winding down as singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens stepped to the microphone and addressed the near-capacity crowd at the Longhorn Ballroom. “We’ve come to the end of the evening’s ...
PBS

Rhiannon Giddens on the Origins of Country Music

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