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Since leaving Carolina Chocolate Drops for a solo career in 2015, Rhiannon Giddens has boldly stretched with each successive album, not only redefining Black American traditions, but adding flourishes of the avant garde to the result. Her first collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi in 2019 continued in this vein. On the pair’s second outing, They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch), the two opt for a kinder, gentler path back to tradition, serving up works like...

Rolling Stone Amythyst Kiah Previews New Album With Haunting ‘Wild Turkey’ Singer-songwriter’s Rounder Records debut Wary + Strange will be released June 18th By Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah will be releasing  Wary+ Strange, her anticipated Rounder Records debut, later this year. The album follows Kiah’s breakout with the 2019 collaborative album Kiah revisited “Black Myself” and 10 other originals on Wary + Strange, which was produced by Tony Berg at Soun...

Rhiannon Giddens: ‘All I want to do is change the record. It won’t compare to what Beyoncé could do’ The i 3 hrs ago Jenn Selby © Provided by The i Rhiannon Giddens releases her new album Theyre Calling Me Home (Photo: Ebru Yildiz 2019) For Rhiannon Giddens, “home” is a fluid concept. It could be Limerick, where she lives, near her two children; Greensboro, North Carolina, where she was born; or on the road, with Francesco Turrisi, her partner in music and love. ...

ViacomCBS Int’l Studios Distribution expands unscripted slate ViacomCBS International Studios Distribution today announced the addition of 400 hours of factual content from the Smithsonian Channel to its sales catalogue. New titles added from the Smithsonian Channel include Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters (1 x 60 minutes); Making Tracks on Mars (1x 60 minutes); Virus Hunting: Cave to Covid (1 x 60 minutes); and Tomb Hunters (4 x 60 minutes). ViacomCBS International Studios Distri...

Leyla McCalla Leyla McCalla is a founding member of Our Native Daughters and alumna of the GRAMMY award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Leylas work unearthing history and musical tradition, combined with her knowledge of cultural hybridization and her own identity as a Haitian American have given her a unique voice and perspective. Her music reflects her eclectic and diverse life experiences, projecting respect for eloquent simplicity that is rarely achieved. Leyla has three solo albums to h...

Posted: Mar 11, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 11 Canadian musicians struggle to earn a living during pandemic The National23 days ago 2:04 Many musicians in Canada have struggled to make a living during the pandemic because of closed venues and streaming services that average only half a cent per stream.2:04

Singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah has emerged as one of Americana’s greatest up and coming artists over the past few years

Virtual Events in March “THE BLACK INDEX” For this exhibit, artists Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas created unexpected and unconventional depictions of Black subjects through drawings, performance art, prints, sculptures, and digital art that challenge traditional methods of portraiture. All of the works will be available for viewing through a virtual tour, and all related performances and lectures will be prerecorded and s...

"Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms & the Music of New Orleans" on WRUR Sun, 02/28/2021 - 10:00am - 11:00am Krewe du Kanaval in New Orleans Gason Ayisyin/Courtesy of the photographer Dont miss the final episode of this three-part series that explores the impact of NOLAs Haitian culture.  Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms & the Music of New Orleans is a three-hour documentary hosted by Haitian-American and New Orleans-based artist and musician, Leyla McCalla, a founding member of Our N...

Amythyst Kiah is tapped as an up-and-coming secret that we need to get to know better with a new version of Kiah’s radically reimagined song “Black Myself” a powerful track originally recorded for the band she was in, Our Native Daughters, which…