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Rhiannon Giddens is on Speaking Soundly, a podcast in which host and MET Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss talks with fellow performers about their creative process and lives as artists. “In addition to being expert in the music, you’re steeping in the history behind the music,” Krauss says. “And then you compose a song to capture that history and use it as a lens to focus in on what’s really happening in our society today. That’s a lot.” You can hear their conversation here.

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Rhiannon Giddens is a guest on the latest episode of Speaking Soundly, a podcast in which host and MET Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss talks with fellow performers about their creative process and lives as artists. “In addition to being expert in the music, you’re steeping in the history behind the music,” Krauss says. “And then you compose a song to capture that history and use it as a lens to focus in on what’s really happening in our society today. That’s a lot.” You can hear their conversation here via Spotify and Apple Podcasts:

Rhiannon Giddens will perform in St. Augustine, Florida, later this month, before giving the final performance in her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, a concert with Silkroad Ensemble, of which she is Artistic Director, in March. She will tour the UK this spring, joined by multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, starting in Aberdeen on April 27, with shows in Edinburgh, Gateshead, Perth, London, Norwich, Birmingham, and Essex. The dates bookend the Boston Lyric Opera run of Omar, her opera with Michael Abels, in May (San Francisco Opera performs it in November), and precede the 2023 Ojai Festival, of which she is Music Director, in June, and a trip to Italy for festival sets in Spoleto and Umbria in July. Giddens also joins Yo-Yo Ma’s Our Common Nature: An Applachian Celebration with Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer in Knoxville in May. You can find details and tickets at nonesuch.com/on-tour.

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Rhiannon Giddens: 'Speaking Soundly' podcast, February 2023
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    Listen: Rhiannon Giddens Talks with 'Speaking Soundly'
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    Rhiannon Giddens is a guest on the latest episode of Speaking Soundly, a podcast in which host and MET Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss talks with fellow performers about their creative process and lives as artists. “In addition to being expert in the music, you’re steeping in the history behind the music,” Krauss says. “And then you compose a song to capture that history and use it as a lens to focus in on what’s really happening in our society today. That’s a lot.” You can hear their conversation here via Spotify and Apple Podcasts:

    Rhiannon Giddens will perform in St. Augustine, Florida, later this month, before giving the final performance in her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, a concert with Silkroad Ensemble, of which she is Artistic Director, in March. She will tour the UK this spring, joined by multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, starting in Aberdeen on April 27, with shows in Edinburgh, Gateshead, Perth, London, Norwich, Birmingham, and Essex. The dates bookend the Boston Lyric Opera run of Omar, her opera with Michael Abels, in May (San Francisco Opera performs it in November), and precede the 2023 Ojai Festival, of which she is Music Director, in June, and a trip to Italy for festival sets in Spoleto and Umbria in July. Giddens also joins Yo-Yo Ma’s Our Common Nature: An Applachian Celebration with Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer in Knoxville in May. You can find details and tickets at nonesuch.com/on-tour.

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