Rhiannon Giddens Continues Her Spring Tour With Two Performances In California

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rhiannon Giddens continues her spring tour with two performances in California this weekend: at UC-Santa Barbara's Campbell Hall tonight and El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday. She and the band - fellow Carolina Chocolate Drops Hubby Jenkins, Malcolm Parson, and Rowan Corbett, along with Jamie Dick on drums and Jason Sypher on bass - continues north in the week ahead, taking the tour through Napa and Arkata before finishing the California leg with four shows at SFJAZZ Center.
She recently spoke about the tour and her debut solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, with the San Francisco Chronicle, which calls the album "boldly eclectic," for a profile you can read at sfgate.com.

Giddens has received wide acclaim for both the new album, which was released on Nonesuch earlier this year, and for the live show. "You could call her the greatest folk diva of our era.
But diva implies that she is mainly a singer, and folk hardly describes what she does," writes Forbes of her tour stop in New York City. She "is a mightier musical force than that.
Besides a thrilling voice, she comes at you with a barrage of sounds and sights and movements from an arsenal of talents that will positively floor you. And then immediately bring you to your feet."