New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rhiannon Giddens was a guest on Amanpour & Co. on PBS Friday night. "The award-winning musical polymath Rhiannon Giddens," says host Christiane Amanpour is "on a mission to re-frame the history of African Americans and their contributions to the musical landscape, a quest that's already won her MacArthur 'Genius' grant." Historian Walter Isaacson talks with Giddens for the show about that history and how it influenced her "amazing" new album, there is no Other, with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. She also gives a bit of a demonstration on her banjo. You can watch the interview below.
Giddens also hosts this week's episode of the
Music Life podcast from BBC World Service, in which musicians from around the world discuss how and why they do what they do. She lead's this week's conversation with Josh Turner, Justin Osborne, and CAM, which you can hear at bbc.co.uk.
Following a special event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles last night, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi take their tour to The Kent Stage in Ohio on Wednesday, followed by a run of sold-out shows in Toronto and throughout the US Midwest. To pick up a copy of there is no Other, head to the Top40-Charts Store, iTunes, and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Apple Music, and everywhere fine music is found.
RHIANNON GIDDENS & FRANCESCO TURRISI ON TOUR
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
Mar 6-9 Port Fairy Folk Festival Geelong, AUSTRALIA
* sold out
