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Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens review: Joyous performance from artist who straddles genres with ease
This Vicar Street show features the Limerick-based singer and composer as a roots rock star, but folk isn’t forgotten
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You’re the One: Rhiannon Giddens is so gifted that even this flawed album gladdens the heart
Although her performances throughout are strong and persuasive, the album doesn’t knit together convincingly
Rhiannon Giddens: ‘I’m trying to add to what it means to be an American’
Previously renowned as a translator and reviver of folk songs, the North Carolina-born, Limerick-based musician is releasing her first album of completely original material
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Irish dancing? It’s all about one-upmanship, says Jean Butler
TV review: ‘Steps Of Freedom: The Story Of Irish Dance’ chronicles the Riverdance effect
The Ticket’s top roots, jazz, trad and classical albums of 2021
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; Matthew Halpin; John Francis Flynn; Haydn/Brahms
Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi: They’re Calling Me Home – An album for our times
The duo’s new collection is shot through with a deep longing for home
Chief Justice Frank Clarke: ‘Judges are not immune from the human condition’
He did not discuss the Séamus Woulfe issue, in an interview at the Ireland’s Edge festival
Ireland’s Edge live: Day 2 of Dingle festival features conversation with Chief Justice
‘Thinkers, changemakers, inventors, advocates and artists’ at west Kerry event
Trad group Dervish’s 30th anniversary to be marked by council
The musicians are to be given a special reception by Sligo County Council
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi: There Is No Other review – Filigree and ferocious in equal measure
This duo poke, prod and needle at the current penchant for ‘othering’, discovering and celebrating natural songlines
Dervish: The Great Irish Songbook review – Accessible but watered down
This the well-worn song selection is let down by some very pedestrian performances
‘Othering people is something humans have done for ever’
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi are fascinated with the influence of Islamic music on the West
Are U2 back already? This week’s must-see rock and pop gigs
Catch Metropolis, Cork Jazz Festival, Sligo Live, Westival, Robert Plant & Van Morrison, Johnny Marr, Chemical Brothers and Phosphorescent over the mid-term break
No plans for the bank holiday and Halloween? You need to read this
From Macnas parades and the Bram Stoker Festival to Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Best rock and pop this week: Rhiannon Giddens, Bryson Tiller and James Blunt
There’s some serious riffage courtesy of Bitch Falcon and Royal Bloood while Queen + Adam Lambert and S Club Live look back
Getting lost on Bob Dylan’s river: ‘We felt if we dug it then he would, too’
When T Bone Burnett was asked to set a stash of lost Dylan lyrics to music, he put Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford and Rhiannon Giddens, among others, in a room together. They jammed ‘the heart and soul out of each other’ to come up with ‘Lost on the River’
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