Rhiannon Giddens To Curate Boston Pops Concerts, Lead Four-Night Residency In May

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rhiannon Giddens, who made her much-lauded Boston Pops debut during the 2018 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, returns with her band for a weeklong Pops residency, titled Redefining American Music, May 22-25, 2019. For the first two evenings, Giddens joins the Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart to perform music from her critically acclaimed albums, fusing influences from roots, jazz, blues, country, gospel, and Celtic music.

The next two nights, Giddens curates a program that spotlights overlooked African American musicians and composers. For these concerts, she and the Pops are joined by Broadway vocalist Darius de Haas (who can be heard on Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns) and pianist Lara Downes to perform music by Black composers in every genre, including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Billy Strayhorn, Eubie Blake, Florence Price, Hazel Scott, and others. For tickets, visit bso.org.