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Nashville Ballet's production of Black Lucy and the Bard, set to an original score by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, premieres on PBS's Great Performances this Friday, September 16, at 9pm ET. Playing onstage alongside the dancers, Giddens and Turrisi play several instruments including violin, banjo, mandolin, and piano. Author and performer Caroline Randall Williams narrates the ballet with her own spoken word poetry from the 2015 book on which the show was based, Lucy Negro, Redux. Choreographed and directed by Nashville Ballet’s artistic director Paul Vasterling, the ballet was recorded in March 2022.
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Nashville Ballet's production of Black Lucy and the Bard, set to an original score by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, receives its television premiere on Great Performances on PBS stations across the US this Friday, September 16, at 9pm ET.
Playing onstage alongside the dancers, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi play several instruments including violin, banjo, mandolin, and piano. Author and performer Caroline Randall Williams narrates the ballet with her own spoken word poetry from the 2015 book on which the show was based, Lucy Negro, Redux. Choreographed and directed by Nashville Ballet’s artistic director Paul Vasterling, the ballet was recorded in March 2022.
For additional details and to find a station near you, visit pbs.org.
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi will give a performance at the US Ambassador's Residence in Dublin this Thursday, September 15, for Other Voices: Dignity, celebrating shared musical culture between the US and Ireland. The event will stream live here:
Giddens and Turrisi return to the road to tour the US with music from their latest album, They're Calling Me Home, which won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, starting with a set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free annual event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, on October 2. See below for details; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. Additionally, Omar, the opera Giddens wrote with Michael Abels, which premiered at Spoleto Festival USA earlier this year, opens at LA Opera on October 22 and at Boston Lyric Opera next May.
Build a House, Rhiannon Giddens' new children's book, will be published on Candlewick Press on October 11. The book, which depicts a family’s resilience in the face of violence and sorrow, is available to pre-order here.
Rhiannon Giddens–Scored Ballet 'Black Lucy and the Bard' Premieres on PBS's 'Great Performances' September 16
Nashville Ballet's production of Black Lucy and the Bard, set to an original score by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, receives its television premiere on Great Performances on PBS stations across the US this Friday, September 16, at 9pm ET.
Playing onstage alongside the dancers, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi play several instruments including violin, banjo, mandolin, and piano. Author and performer Caroline Randall Williams narrates the ballet with her own spoken word poetry from the 2015 book on which the show was based, Lucy Negro, Redux. Choreographed and directed by Nashville Ballet’s artistic director Paul Vasterling, the ballet was recorded in March 2022.
For additional details and to find a station near you, visit pbs.org.
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi will give a performance at the US Ambassador's Residence in Dublin this Thursday, September 15, for Other Voices: Dignity, celebrating shared musical culture between the US and Ireland. The event will stream live here:
Giddens and Turrisi return to the road to tour the US with music from their latest album, They're Calling Me Home, which won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, starting with a set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free annual event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, on October 2. See below for details; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. Additionally, Omar, the opera Giddens wrote with Michael Abels, which premiered at Spoleto Festival USA earlier this year, opens at LA Opera on October 22 and at Boston Lyric Opera next May.
Build a House, Rhiannon Giddens' new children's book, will be published on Candlewick Press on October 11. The book, which depicts a family’s resilience in the face of violence and sorrow, is available to pre-order here.
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Rhiannon Giddens–Scored Ballet 'Black Lucy and the Bard' Premieres on PBS's 'Great Performances' September 16
Nashville Ballet's production of Black Lucy and the Bard, set to an original score by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, receives its television premiere on Great Performances on PBS stations across the US this Friday, September 16, at 9pm ET.
Playing onstage alongside the dancers, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi play several instruments including violin, banjo, mandolin, and piano. Author and performer Caroline Randall Williams narrates the ballet with her own spoken word poetry from the 2015 book on which the show was based, Lucy Negro, Redux. Choreographed and directed by Nashville Ballet’s artistic director Paul Vasterling, the ballet was recorded in March 2022.
For additional details and to find a station near you, visit pbs.org.
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi will give a performance at the US Ambassador's Residence in Dublin this Thursday, September 15, for Other Voices: Dignity, celebrating shared musical culture between the US and Ireland. The event will stream live here:
Giddens and Turrisi return to the road to tour the US with music from their latest album, They're Calling Me Home, which won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, starting with a set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free annual event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, on October 2. See below for details; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. Additionally, Omar, the opera Giddens wrote with Michael Abels, which premiered at Spoleto Festival USA earlier this year, opens at LA Opera on October 22 and at Boston Lyric Opera next May.
Build a House, Rhiannon Giddens' new children's book, will be published on Candlewick Press on October 11. The book, which depicts a family’s resilience in the face of violence and sorrow, is available to pre-order here.
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi will perform live with the Nashville Ballet on a five-city, twelve-performance tour of Lucy Negro Redux, a piece conceived, written, and choreographed by Paul Vasterling with music written by Giddens. The piece, based on the book by Caroline Randall Williams, debuted with three sold-out performances in Nashville in 2019. The tour begins with five performances at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, March 18-26, 2022, followed by stops in Denver, Santa Fe, Kansas City, and Norfolk, Virginia.
Caroline Shaw is the guest on the latest episode of the podcast Conversations on Dance. She spoke with hosts Rebecca King Ferraro and Michael Sean Breeden, former Miami City Ballet dancers, at the 2021 Vail Dance Festival, about her music and composing for dance. You can hear their conversation here.
