Musician, singer and songwriter Rhiannon Giddens tells Rob Kramer about how she went about blazing her own path from the opera conservatory to the forefront of contemporary roots-Americana music. She also candidly reveals how challenging it was to transition from singing and playing with Carolina Chocolate Drops, a band she co-founded, to becoming a solo headliner.


 


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Musician, singer and songwriter Rhiannon Giddens tells Rob Kramer about how she went about blazing her own path from the opera conservatory to the forefront of contemporary roots-Americana music. She also candidly reveals how challenging it was to transition from singing and playing with Carolina Chocolate Drops, a band she co-founded, to becoming a solo headliner. New Template

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Host Pier Carlo Talenti interviews artists who – whatever they make, wherever they work – are shaking up the status quo in their fields and their communities. Art Restart is produced by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. The views and opinions expressed by speakers and presenters in connection with Art Restart are their own, and not an endorsement by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and the UNC School of the Arts.

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