Rhiannon Giddens was on Amanpour & Co. on PBS. "The award-winning musical polymath," says host Christiane Amanpour is "on a mission to re-frame the history of African Americans and their contributions to the musical landscape." Historian Walter Isaacson talks with Giddens about that history and how it influenced her "amazing" new album, there is no Other. You can watch it here.
Rhiannon Giddens was a guest on Amanpour & Co. on PBS Friday night. "The award-winning musical polymath Rhiannon Giddens," says host Christiane Amanpour is "on a mission to re-frame the history of African Americans and their contributions to the musical landscape, a quest that's already won her MacArthur 'Genius' grant." Historian Walter Isaacson talks with Giddens for the show about that history and how it influenced her "amazing" new album, there is no Other, with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. She also gives a bit of a demonstration on her banjo. You can watch the interview below.
Giddens also hosts this week's episode of the Music Life podcast from BBC World Service, in which musicians from around the world discuss how and why they do what they do. She lead's this week's conversation with Josh Turner, Justin Osborne, and CAM, which you can hear at bbc.co.uk.
Following a special event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles last night, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi take their tour to The Kent Stage in Ohio on Wednesday, followed by a run of sold-out shows in Toronto and throughout the US Midwest. See below for details and visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. To pick up a copy of there is no Other, head to the Nonesuch Store, iTunes, and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Apple Music, and everywhere fine music is found.
RHIANNON GIDDENS & FRANCESCO TURRISI ON TOUR
| Oct 23 | The Kent Stage* | Kent, OH |
| Oct 24 | Koerner Hall* | Toronto, ON |
| Oct 25 | The Ark* | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Oct 26&27 | City Winery* | Chicago, IL |
| Oct 29 | Buskirk-Chumley Theater | Bloomington, IN |
| Oct 30 | The Englert Theatre | Iowa City, IA |
| Oct 31&Nov 1 | The Dakota* | Minneapolis, MN |
| Nov 2&3 | Stoughton Opera House* | Stoughton, WI |
| Nov 21 | HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs* | London, UK |
| Nov 22 | Royal Festival Hall | London, UK |
| Nov 23 | St Georges Church | Brighton, UK |
| Nov 24 | The Anvil | Basingstoke, UK |
| Nov 26 | Forum | Bath, UK |
| Nov 27 | Opera House | Buxton, UK |
| Nov 28 | Grand Central | Liverpool, UK |
| Nov 29 | The Sage | Gateshead, UK |
| Dec 1 | Usher Hall | Edinburgh, UK |
| Dec 3 | TivoliVredenburg | Utrecht, NETHERLANDS |
| Dec 4 | Fabrik | Hamburg, GERMANY |
| Dec 5 | Centralstation | Darmstadt, GERMANY |
| Dec 7 | Kulturkirche | Cologne, GERMANY |
| Dec 8 | Het Depot | Leuven, BELGIUM |
| Dec 9 | Café de la Danse | Paris, FRANCE |
| Dec 10 | De Duif | Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS |
| Jan 17&18 | Torino Folk Club | Turin, ITALY |
| Feb 7 | Bing Concert Hall | Stanford, CA |
| Feb 13-16 | SFJAZZ Center | San Francisco, CA |
| Mar 6-9 | Port Fairy Folk Festival | Geelong, AUSTRALIA |
* sold out
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