The Soul of Music: Rhiannon Giddens excavates the past

Overheard at National Geographic

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This episode is part one of The Soul of Music—Overheard’s four-part series focusing on music, exploration, and Black history. Our guest this week is two-time Grammy award winner Rhiannon Giddens, a singer, songwriter, and banjo and fiddle player. A self-described “armchair historian,” Rhiannon chats with Nat Geo Explorer and spoken-word poet Alyea Pierce about the origins of the banjo, her new opera Omar, and how she finds inspiration through history. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? Learn more about Rhiannon and her music, opera, and children’s book at her website, rhiannongiddens.com. And you can follow her on Twitter @RhiannonGiddens. You can follow National Geographic Explorer Alyea Pierce at her instagram @alyeaspierce. Also explore: Listen to the National Geographic podcast Into the Depths to hear more of Alyea’s poetry and follow Explorer Tara Roberts on a journey to document sunken slave ships in the Atlantic. Learn about how music is used to heal the sick in Appalachia in this Nat Geo article. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.9	I'm a producer here at Overheard, and today we've got something special for you.
0:41.8	Part one of our four part series, focusing on music, exploration and black history.
0:47.0	It's called The Soul of Music.
0:49.2	A National Geographic Explorers will be sitting down with some of our favorite musicians to discuss
0:54.0	how history and the natural world inspires their art and adventures.
0:58.1	Today, singer and songwriter, Rianne Giddens, chats with explorer Alia Pierce.
1:03.3	Rianne is a co-founder of the old time-string band The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
1:08.0	She's a two-time Grammy Award winner, and 2022 she won Best Folk album for The Calling
1:13.0	Me Home.
1:14.0	And she's also a banjo and fiddle player.
1:17.4	My name is Rianne Giddens, and I am a musician and kind of a performing historian, sort of
1:23.8	an armchair historian, I suppose.
1:26.3	Nowadays, Rianne lives in Ireland, but she was born and raised in North Carolina.
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