Podcast Episodes featuring Rhiannon Giddens

Banjo Player Rhiannon Giddens Sings Slave Narratives

Fresh Air - June 20, 2022 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 32.7K ratings
Giddens' album Freedom Highway is an exploration of Black experiences, accompanied by an instrument with its own uniquely African American story: the banjo. Originally broadcast May 11, 2017. Ken Tucker reviews three new country songs.

Amanpour: Peter Frankopan, Malte Herwig, Grayson Perry and Rhiannon Giddens

Amanpour - October 18, 2019 23:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Peter Frankopan, professor of Global History at Oxford University, and Malte Herwig, journalist and Peter Handke biographer, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the controversial decision to award writer and playwright Peter Handke with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Handke has been accused of be...

Rhiannon Giddens

Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio - September 16, 2019 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
Giddens shares songs from her latest album, There is No Other, in an emotional and transfixing performance at the Tiny Desk.

Episode 139 - Rhiannon Giddens

Sodajerker On Songwriting - June 06, 2019 07:47 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 363 ratings
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens joins us to discuss her new record, There Is No Other, made in collaboration with Francesco Turrisi. During the course of this in-depth conversation, Rhiannon describes the spontaneous process fuelling their work together, the historical re...

Rhiannon Giddens

Midnight Lightning - February 14, 2018 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
Rhiannon Giddens is a vocalist, banjoist and fiddler from Greensborough, North Carolina. Rhiannon’s music draws from old-time, gospel, celtic, folk and jazz. She's won Grammys with her string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, she won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass,...