Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens's latest album was recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Tracked over an intensely productive five day period in Dublin, Ireland, the album is at once a condemnation of 'othering' and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience.

Rhiannon Giddens's follow-up to her solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn, is more raw and personal with a mix of original tunes, traditional songs, and two songs from the civil rights era.

Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on Songs of Our Native Daughters, written...

Grammy Award winning performer David Holt has spent his life learning and performing traditional American music. It has taken him from the most remote coves of southern Appalachia to the bright lights of TV studios, and the Grand Ole Opry stage. In this show, David introduces viewers to modern masters of traditional music in the southern mountains of North Carolina and remembers the legends who taught him.

The finely crafted handmade instruments and the world renowned artists who play them, demonstrating the perfect blend of form and function. By exploring how various instruments are perfected, and a unique journey through our country's past, detailing the contributions of jazz and Appalachian roots music to the American cultural landscape, as well as the intersection of the guitar and political activism, and how the legacy of West African instruments...

From infectious African rhythms and Latin grooves to far-flung gems from Indian and Chinese cultures, this is an album guaranteed to broaden a child's musical horizons.

Grammy Award winning performer David Holt has spent his life learning and performing traditional American music. It has taken him from the most remote coves of southern Appalachia to the bright lights of TV studios and the Grand Old Opry stage.

For one night in 2014, artists including Marcus Mumford, Jack White, and Punch Brothers went onstage to celebrate the music of the Coen Brothers' acclaimed film. There are also performances from Conor Oberst, Gillian Welch, and Joan Baez.

The companion album to the Morgan Neville documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble. This is the artists' most personal album to date with multicultural vocals, instruments, and musicians that share what their home sounds like to them. The songs included are ones that Ensemble members have written or arranged for the group over the years that celebrates cultural differences and friendships. Euro-Asian Silk Route countries...