Rhiannon Giddens begins a spring North American tour at the Savannah Music Festival tonight. She has shows in the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia over the next few weeks, closing out the month with a set at MerleFest. The tour resumes in mid-May, with shows in upstate New York, Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New England, Kentucky, and more. There are more shows scheduled for the summer as well.
Rhiannon Giddens begins a spring North American tour, with music from her critically acclaimed 2017 album, Freedom Highway, at Lucas Theatre for the Arts in Savannah tonight, as part of the Savannah Music Festival. She makes stops in the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia over the next few weeks, closing out the month with a set at MerleFest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The tour resumes in mid-May, with shows in upstate New York, Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, throughout New England, down into Kentucky, and more. There are more shows already scheduled for the summer as well. See below for all of the currently scheduled shows. For all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Giddens has been nominated for her first Songlines Music Award, for Freedom Highway. Songlines gave the album four stars, calling the title track "the closing triumph to a wonderful set."
To pick up a copy of Freedom Highway, head to iTunes, Amazon, and the Nonesuch Store, and listen on Spotify and Apple Music.
| Apr 13 | Savannah Music Festival | Savannah, GA |
| Apr 14 | Memorial Auditorium | Raleigh, NC |
| Apr 15 | Spinning Jenny | Greer, SC |
| Apr 17 | Harvester Performance Center | Rocky Mount, VA |
| Apr 18 | Virginia Arts Festival | Norfolk, VA |
| Apr 19 | Baltimore Sound Stage | Baltimore, MD |
| Apr 23 | Ferguson Hall, Straz Center | Tampa, FL |
| Apr 24 | Madison-Morgan Cultural Center | Madison, GA |
| Apr 25 | Charleston Music Hall | Charleston, SC |
| Apr 27 | McCelvey Center | York, SC |
| Apr 28 | MerleFest | Wilkesboro, NC |
| May 11 | Baltimore Fiddle Fair | Baltimore, IRELAND |
| May 14 | Hangar Theatre (Sold Out) | Ithaca, NY |
| May 15 | Danforth Music Hall | Toronto, ON |
| May 17 | St. Cecilia Music Center | Grand Rapids, MI |
| May 18 | Michigan Theater | Ann Arbor, MI |
| May 19 | Southern Theatre | Columbus, OH |
| May 20 | Memorial Hall | Cincinnati, OH |
| May 22 | Byham Theatre | Pittsburgh, PA |
| May 23 | Matthews Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center | Princeton, NJ |
| May 24 | Delfest | Cumberland, MD |
| Jun 8 | Friday Cheers | Richmond, VA |
| Jun 10 | Discover Jazz Festival | Burlington, VT |
| Jun 12 | Narrows Center for the Arts |
| Jun 13 | Longwood Gardens | Kennett Square, PA |
| Jun 15 | Lowell Summer Music Series | Lowell, MA |
| Jun 17 | Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival | Croton-on-Hudson, NY |
| Jun 20 | Ridgefield Playhouse | Ridgefield, CT |
| Jun 21 | The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor | Boothbay Harbor, ME |
| Jun 22 | St. Johnsbury Academy | St. Johnsbury, VT |
| Jun 23 | Colonial Theatre | Keene, NH |
| Jun 27 | Asbury Hall, Babeville | Buffalo, NY |
| Jun 28 | The Grand Theatre | Frankfort, KY |
| Jun 29 | ROMP | Owensboro, KY |
| Jul 14 | Targhee Fest | Alta, WY |
| Jul 25 | Lumina Festival | Wilmington, NC |
| Jul 28 | Blue Ridge Music Center | Galax, VA |
| Aug 4 | Cambridge Folk Festival | Cambridge, UK |
| Aug 11 | Wolf Trap w/Mary Chapin Carpenter | Vienna, VA |
| Aug 15 | Chautauqua Amphitheater w/Francesco Turrisi | Chautauqua, NY |
| Sep 13 | Towne Crier | Beacon, NY |
| Sep 14 | FreshGrass Festival | North Adams, MA |
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We enjoyed Rhiannon's concert
We enjoyed Rhiannon's concert at Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium on 4/14/18. I'll never know if you'll get this message or want to act on it. We were one third up the auditorium on the left side facing the stage. The drummer's foot pedal hitting the base drum drowned out all but the treble tones from all the other performers. There were quiet moments where that base drum was silent, and I really enjoyed hearing the music then. I understood that you have a mixing person that travels with you. Please consider quieting that base drum a little ( not the tom on the drummer's left, but the foot-peddled vertical base drum in front of him on his right). Yes you need to hit it hard and punctuate, but drowning out the virtuosity of the whole band, even the drummer's other drums, doesn't win for me. Thanks for listening. Great and energetic concert - wow! Big change from the Chocolate Drops in that little tent at MerleFest years ago.