Tue 10/4 @ noon
Rhiannon Giddens graduated from Oberlin in 2000 but she’s certainly been no stranger there, despite a busy, successful music career.
She studied opera at Oberlin, but she’s better known for singing and playing banjo and fiddle in folk/old-time/bluegrass settings. She earned acclaim as co-founder/member of the country/blues/old-time ensemble Carolina Chocolate Drops and as a solo artist and collaborator. She performed with country artist Eric Church on his terrific 2015 single “Kill a Word,” as well as with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, Kronos Quartet, Allen Toussaint and many, many more.
Lately, she’s been working with Italian jazz keyboardist Francesco Turrisi, a collaboration that brings new dimensions to the work of each of them with acoustic music that incorporates blues, bluegrass, gospel and traditional Celtic music, among other things.
Giddens and Turrisi return to Oberlin’s Finney Chapel for a performance this week featuring songs from their 2021 Grammy-winning They’re Calling Me Home, which explores music of their native and adopted countries of America, Italy, and Ireland.
Go here for tickets.
rhiannongiddens.com/with-francesco-turrisi