The August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC) announced today the line-up for its third annual Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival (HBHF) on October 3, 2020, starting at 12 PM EST. Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: Rhiannon Giddens
Our Native Daughters Launch Their First-Ever Live Performances In New York State
Our Native Daughters — the collaboration of Rhiannon Giddens
HW Pick: Rhiannon Giddens “Julie”, 2016 (Video)
Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and “Nashville” based her lyrics for this song on a 19th-century slave’s memoir. Continue Reading →
HW Pick: Williams, Giddens, Carrington And More Perform The American Songbook
As part of its 17th season, Lincoln Center’s acclaimed series American Songbook will feature top performers and rising stars of musical theater, pop, jazz, folk, soul, and R&B in The Appel Room and the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse this January through March. Continue Reading →
HW Pick: Rhiannon Giddens At The Town Hall
It was near the close of the first half of the T Bone Burnett–curated, September 2013 Another Day, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall—a celebration of the early ’60s folk revival that had inspired the Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis—when an extraordinary star-is-born moment occurred and singer Rhiannon Giddens, best known as a member of the Grammy–winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, indisputably stole the show. Continue Reading →