New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rhiannon Giddens and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi begin a months-long tour of North America, Europe, and the UK with a performance at Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday. The tour, featuring music from their album there is no Other, continues with concerts across North America, including Atlanta, Nashville, DC, Cambridge, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago, and more, into November. They head to the UK to tour in late November, including two concerts for the EFG London Jazz Festival, then to the Continent in December for shows in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Turrisi's hometown of Turin, Italy. They return to the States in February for several Bay Area concerts, including a four-night residency at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco. See below for details and tickets!
there is no Other, released on CD and digitally in May and in a special two-LP vinyl edition last week, was produced by Joe Henry and tracked over five days in Dublin. The album is at once a condemnation of "othering" and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience. "This is acoustic roots music at its most glorious," exclaims Uncut, "and Giddens is fast becoming the genre's brightest star in the firmament." To pick up a copy of there is no Other, head to the Top40-Charts.com Store, iTunes, and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Apple Music, and everywhere fine music can be found.
Giddens, Turrisi, and bassist Jason Sypher performed an NPR Tiny Desk Concert of songs from there is no Other and Giddens' previous album, Freedom Highway, which premiered earlier this week. You can watch it below:
RHIANNON GIDDENS & FRANCESCO TURRISI ON TOUR:
Sep 19 Alys Stephens Center Birmingham, AL
Sep 20 City Winery* Atlanta, GA
Sep 21 City Winery* Nashville, TN
Sep 22 Diana Wortham Theatre* Asheville, NC
Sep 23 McGlohan Theatre at
Spirit Square Charlotte, NC
Sep 25 North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh, NC
Sep 26 Kennedy Center Terrace Theater* Washington, DC
Sep 27 McCarter Theater Princeton, NH
Sep 28 Grand Opera House Wimington, DE
Sep 29 Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Burlington, VT
Oct 1 Stone Mountain Arts Center* Brownfield, ME
Oct 2 The Opera House* Boothbay Harbor, ME
Oct 3 Sanders Theatre* Cambridge, MA
Oct 4&5 Metropolitan Museum of Art* New York, NY
Oct 19&20 Pico Union Project* Los Angeles, CA
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
* sold out.
