‘Firing Line’ with Margaret Hoover is made possible in part by: Robert Granieri, Charles R. Schwab, The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, The David Tepper Charitable Inc, The Fairweather Foundation ...

When a musician of Rhiannon Giddens’ stature comes to perform in your town for the first time, a celebration is in order. So, hey, Miami, how about a good, old-fashioned porch party? The MacArthur ...

Recall the sound that set the salty, downhome tone for Beyoncé's history-making single "Texas Hold 'Em." The first notes you hear on the first track by a Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country ...

As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim ...

Of course, an official Juneteenth event would probably not have included Steve Martin, although Giddens made her position clear that everybody should be able to make a claim on the banjo now, however ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “We the People,” Roberts’s first dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, finds the rage and resistance hidden in an upbeat score by Rhiannon ...

A new North Carolina festival founded by the musician Rhiannon Giddens highlighted Black string music and flaky treats. The culmination of the Biscuits & Banjos ...

“Well, hello. I’d like to welcome you all to our magical traveling porch,” said Rhiannon Giddens, taking the stage at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall last month. “What we are doing tonight is creating a ...

You’re the One is Giddens’ third solo album, her first in six years and the first for which she has composed all the material. Recorded with many of her closest musical collaborators, including ...

That may not be an immediate rib-tickler for everyone, but it counts as one for anyone who has followed Giddens just enough to know that reclaiming the banjo as a Black instrument has been a mission ...