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Rhiannon Giddens's new five-song EP Factory Girl, which was first released as a vinyl 10" as part of the Black Friday Record Store Day event, is now available digitally; a limited quantity of the 10" vinyl is also now available in the Nonesuch Store. NPR Music's Ann Powers says: "Deftly curated, gorgeously sung, this EP is America." The EP is culled from the same T Bone Burnett–produced sessions that yielded her solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, which has been nominated for a Grammy Award and has landed on several lists of the year's best, including those from NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Sunday Times, Uncut, and Mojo. 

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Rhiannon Giddens's new five-song EP Factory Girl, which was first released as a vinyl 10" as part of the Black Friday Record Store Day event, is now available digitally on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify, and the Nonesuch Store, where a limited quantity of the 10" vinyl is also now available. NPR Music's Ann Powers says: "Deftly curated, gorgeously sung, this EP is America." The EP is culled from the same T Bone Burnett–produced sessions that yielded her solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, which has been nominated for a Grammy Award and has landed on several lists of the year's best, including those from NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Sunday Times, Uncut, and Mojo. Powers, in adding the album to her list of favorites of the year, calls it "a truly astounding vocal performance by the woman who should be known as the breakthrough voice of pop in 2015."

Giddens resumes her international tour in early 2016, including several as part of Transatlantic Sessions; a return to the US for performances of Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American Experience with Leyla McCalla and Bhi Bhiman; and a tour of Australia. See below for all of the currently scheduled dates, and visit nonesuch.com/on-tour for the latest.

As with Tomorrow Is My Turn, Giddens again records traditional songs and rethinks ones written or made famous by her musical heroes Ethel Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharp. Giddens co-wrote, with her sister Lalenja Harrington and Burnett, "Moonshiner's Daughter," which draws inspiration from family lore about her great-grandfather, a notorious rum-runner. A traditional Gaelic mouth music tune also is featured, along with the title track, a traditional Irish song for which Giddens, deeply troubled by the 2013 factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,100 workers, wrote additional lyrics.

The sessions for the album and EP took place in Los Angeles and Nashville, with a multi-generational group of players assembled by Burnett. Musicians on Factory Girl include Burnett; fiddle player Gabe Witcher and double bassist Paul Kowert of label-mates Punch Brothers; percussionist Jack Ashford of Motown's renowned Funk Brothers; drummer Jay Bellerose; guitarist Colin Linden; veteran Nashville session bassist Dennis Crouch; and Giddens's Carolina Chocolate Drops touring band-mates, multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins and beat-boxer Adam Matta.

RHIANNON GIDDENS ON TOUR

Jan 20 Handelsbeurs Gent, BELGIUM
Jan 21 Kulturkirche Cologne, GERMANY
Jan 22 Columbia Theatre Berlin, GERMANY
Jan 23 North Sea Jazz Club Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Jan 25 New Morning Paris, FRANCE
Jan 27 Old Fruit Market Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Jan 29 Royal Concert Hall* Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Jan 31 Royal Concert Hall* Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Feb 1 Royal Festival Hall* London, ENGLAND
Feb 2 Symphony Hall* Birmingham, ENGLAND
Feb 3 Sage Gateshead* Gateshead, ENGLAND
Feb 4 Bridgewater Hall* Manchester, ENGLAND
Feb 5 Millennium* Derry, N. IRELAND
     
Feb 20 Oberlin College & Conservatory** Oberlin, OH
Feb 21 Club Cafe** Pittsburgh, PA
Feb 24 Appel Room, Lincoln Center** New York, NY
Feb 25 Weinberg Center for the Arts** Frederick, MD
Feb 26 Lisner Auditorium, GWU** Washington, DC
Feb 27 McCelvey Center** York, SC
     
Mar 18–20 Blue Mountains Music Festival Katoomba, AUSTRALIA
Mar 21 The Factory Theater Marrickville, AUSTRALIA
Mar 23 The Corner Hotel Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Mar 24–28 Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay, AUSTRALIA
     
Apr 7 Rams Head On Stage Annapolis, MD
Apr 8 Savannah Music Festival Savannah, GA
Apr 13 The National Richmond, VA
     

* Transatlantic Sessions
** Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American Experience

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  • Friday, December 11, 2015
    Rhiannon Giddens's EP "Factory Girl" Now Available Everywhere

    Rhiannon Giddens's new five-song EP Factory Girl, which was first released as a vinyl 10" as part of the Black Friday Record Store Day event, is now available digitally on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify, and the Nonesuch Store, where a limited quantity of the 10" vinyl is also now available. NPR Music's Ann Powers says: "Deftly curated, gorgeously sung, this EP is America." The EP is culled from the same T Bone Burnett–produced sessions that yielded her solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, which has been nominated for a Grammy Award and has landed on several lists of the year's best, including those from NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Sunday Times, Uncut, and Mojo. Powers, in adding the album to her list of favorites of the year, calls it "a truly astounding vocal performance by the woman who should be known as the breakthrough voice of pop in 2015."

    Giddens resumes her international tour in early 2016, including several as part of Transatlantic Sessions; a return to the US for performances of Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American Experience with Leyla McCalla and Bhi Bhiman; and a tour of Australia. See below for all of the currently scheduled dates, and visit nonesuch.com/on-tour for the latest.

    As with Tomorrow Is My Turn, Giddens again records traditional songs and rethinks ones written or made famous by her musical heroes Ethel Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharp. Giddens co-wrote, with her sister Lalenja Harrington and Burnett, "Moonshiner's Daughter," which draws inspiration from family lore about her great-grandfather, a notorious rum-runner. A traditional Gaelic mouth music tune also is featured, along with the title track, a traditional Irish song for which Giddens, deeply troubled by the 2013 factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,100 workers, wrote additional lyrics.

    The sessions for the album and EP took place in Los Angeles and Nashville, with a multi-generational group of players assembled by Burnett. Musicians on Factory Girl include Burnett; fiddle player Gabe Witcher and double bassist Paul Kowert of label-mates Punch Brothers; percussionist Jack Ashford of Motown's renowned Funk Brothers; drummer Jay Bellerose; guitarist Colin Linden; veteran Nashville session bassist Dennis Crouch; and Giddens's Carolina Chocolate Drops touring band-mates, multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins and beat-boxer Adam Matta.

    RHIANNON GIDDENS ON TOUR

    Jan 20 Handelsbeurs Gent, BELGIUM
    Jan 21 Kulturkirche Cologne, GERMANY
    Jan 22 Columbia Theatre Berlin, GERMANY
    Jan 23 North Sea Jazz Club Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
    Jan 25 New Morning Paris, FRANCE
    Jan 27 Old Fruit Market Glasgow, SCOTLAND
    Jan 29 Royal Concert Hall* Glasgow, SCOTLAND
    Jan 31 Royal Concert Hall* Glasgow, SCOTLAND
    Feb 1 Royal Festival Hall* London, ENGLAND
    Feb 2 Symphony Hall* Birmingham, ENGLAND
    Feb 3 Sage Gateshead* Gateshead, ENGLAND
    Feb 4 Bridgewater Hall* Manchester, ENGLAND
    Feb 5 Millennium* Derry, N. IRELAND
         
    Feb 20 Oberlin College & Conservatory** Oberlin, OH
    Feb 21 Club Cafe** Pittsburgh, PA
    Feb 24 Appel Room, Lincoln Center** New York, NY
    Feb 25 Weinberg Center for the Arts** Frederick, MD
    Feb 26 Lisner Auditorium, GWU** Washington, DC
    Feb 27 McCelvey Center** York, SC
         
    Mar 18–20 Blue Mountains Music Festival Katoomba, AUSTRALIA
    Mar 21 The Factory Theater Marrickville, AUSTRALIA
    Mar 23 The Corner Hotel Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
    Mar 24–28 Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay, AUSTRALIA
         
    Apr 7 Rams Head On Stage Annapolis, MD
    Apr 8 Savannah Music Festival Savannah, GA
    Apr 13 The National Richmond, VA
         

    * Transatlantic Sessions
    ** Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American Experience

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