Deeper Inside Project Democracy with Rhiannon Giddens

This is a special live edition of our series to celebrate Juneteenth day. It features an interview with international recording artist Rhiannon Giddens where we discuss the connections between music, storytelling and history. The interview also focuses on the Wilmington, NC coup d'etat of 1898 and the erasure of history that took place after.

Rhiannon’s is a MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient. Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. She was nominated this year for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019), an album that is at once a condemnation of “othering” and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience. She has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series Nashville. Giddens has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS last fall. In 2019, Giddens also formed the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players and contributed to and produced their album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.”

For additional information we recommend:
https://www.ncarts.org/comehearnc/365...

Songs of Our Native Daughters:
   • Our Native Daughters - "Mama's Cryin'...  

Wilmington's Lie:
The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Author: David Zucchino
https://www.amazon.com/Wilmingtons-Li...