Rhiannon Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, who is known for her unique approach to folk music. She is one of the founders of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time, blues, country band, where she played banjo and fiddle and sang lead.
Giddens graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 1995 and went on to study opera at the Oberlin Conservatory at Oberlin College, where she graduated in 2000.
A consummate musician, Giddens has an impressive list of works. She has dropped five solo albums, including two, 2019’s “There Is No Other,” and “They’re Calling Me Home” (2021) on which she collaborated with Francesco Turrisi. “They’re Calling Me Home” won the 2022 Grammy for Best Folk Album.
Giddens worked on “The New Basement Tapes,” a project produced by T Bone Burnett. The musicians involved composed music to accompany newly found lyrics by Bob Dylan. The resulting album “Lost on the River” was in the Billboard Top 40.
She co-wrote the opera “Omar” with Michael Abels, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2023. A concert review says:
“We all witnessed something very special. what an amazing voice . . . ”
Rhiannon Giddens will be at the Observatory North Park in San Diego on June 19. Colorful Posters are the perfect means to advertise events like this, and organizers will find them at Print shops.
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