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Rhiannon Giddens shares a lyric video for the title track to her 2023 album, You're the One. The song was inspired by a moment Giddens had with her son not long after he was born (he's now ten years old, and she has a fourteen-year-old daughter as well). “Your life has changed forever, and you don't know it until you're in the middle of it and it hits you,” Giddens says. “I held his little cheek up to my face, and was just reminded, 'Oh my God, my children—they have every bit of my heart.'”
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Rhiannon Giddens performs "Si Dolce è'l Tormento" with Francesco Turrisi, from their 2021 album They're Calling Me Home. The video was filmed by Laura Sheeran at Hellfire Studio in Dublin.
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Rhiannon Giddens performs "O Death," from They're Calling Me Home, her 2021 album with Francesco Turrisi. The video features illustrated vignettes of a story about death painted by Maeve Clancy, an Irish crankie roll artist. Giddens explains, “Crankies are a pre-electricity technology that pair a visual narrative, usually painted on a long piece of paper or cloth, 'cranked' by hand to the timing of the song.”
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Rhiannon Giddens performs "Waterbound" with Francesco Turrisi, from their 2021 album They're Calling Me Home. The song and video, directed by Giddens and Laura Sheeran, also feature Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. Filmed in Co. Dublin and Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
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Rhiannon Giddens performs "Calling Me Home" with Francesco Turrisi, from their 2021 album They're Calling Me Home. Video by Robert Edridge-Waks. The song was written Alice Gerrard, the folk music pioneer of whom Giddens says: "Some people just know how to tap into a tradition and an emotion so deep that it sounds like a song that has always been around—Alice Gerrard is one of those rarities; 'Calling Me Home' struck me forcefully and deeply the first time I heard it, and every time since. This song just wanted to be sung and so I listened."
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Rhiannon Giddens' take on the Bill Withers classic, “Just the Two of Us,” featuring her longtime collaborator Sxip Shirey on harmonica and electronics. The video, assembled by Jacob McCoy, features photos and videos taken by friends and family in quarantine, and workers in the North Carolina UNC and NY-Presbyterian healthcare systems. For more information on the Global Giving Coronavirus Relief Fund and to donate, visit globalgiving.org.
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Nashville Ballet presents "Trees on the Mountain," a choreographic film set to Rhiannon Giddens' and Francesco Turrisi's song from the 2019 album, there is no Other. Featuring Nashville Ballet's Company Artists Mollie Sansone, Brett Sjoblom & Owen Thorne. Directed by William Kaner and choreographed by Nashville Ballet Artistic Director Paul Vasterling.
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Take a look inside the two-LP vinyl edition of Rhiannon Giddens's latest album, there is no Other, recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. The vinyl edition includes four additional tracks, expanded liner notes, and new photos from the recording session.
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Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi, producer Joe Henry, and engineer Ryan Freeland talk about working together on the album there is no Other. Filmed by Laura Sheeran at Windmill Lane Recording Studios, Dublin.
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Rhiannon Giddens and producer Joe Henry discuss the evolution of her artistry and capturing the present moment on her new album, there is no Other, with Francesco Turrisi. Filmed by Laura Sheeran at Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Dublin.
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