Rhiannon Giddens | Come Hear North Carolina In The Water Concert

The roots of American music run deep in North Carolina, and the diversity of our music mirrors the diversity of our musicians’ creative homes. In the Water is a special limited video series for the 2019 North Carolina Year of Music that highlights the symbolic and literal places that shape the sounds and souls of North Carolina musicians. Each episode of In The Water features a North Carolina musician performing a unique location across the state.
In this installment, Greensboro, North Carolina's Rhiannon Giddens took the Come Hear North Carolina team across the state to Wilmington - to share the too-often-forgotten history of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The tragic events of that year saw a white supremacist mob take over the city of Wilmington, burn and destroy African American-owned businesses and take an untold number of African American lives. Before the insurrection, Wilmington was considered to be one of the South's great examples of a city coming together in Reconstruction.
Her performance, filmed at the headquarters of Cucalorus arts festival, features the songs "Pretty Saro" (a traditional ballad taught to Rhiannon by N.C. Heritage Awardee Sheila Kay Adams), "At The Purchasers Option," and "He Will See You Through."
Rhiannon Giddens is a Macarthur Genius Award recipient and the Grammy Award-winning co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Giddens also received the inaugural Legacy of Americana Award at the Americana Honors and Awards in Nashville this year, was featured prominently in Ken Burns’ Country Music documentary series and is a current Grammy nominee in the Best American Roots Performance category for her collaboration with the Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, as well as in the Best American Roots Song category for her work in the group Our Native Daughters. Giddens' In The Water session follows performances from The Mountain Goats, Mary Lattimore and Vanessa Ferguson at unique and meaningful locations throughout the state.
Special thanks to Dan Brawley, Rachel Taylor and Cucalorus.
Find the full In The Water series at www.ComeHearNC.com/InTheWater.
Credits:
Videographers: Laura Casteel, Tom Normanly, Matt Zeher, Greg Snyder
Music Mastering: Tom Normanly
Lead Editor: Laura Casteel
Script Editor: Sandra Davidson
Producer: Sandra Davidson, Samuel Gerweck, Scott Stegall, Vergil Demery

[@TheAcworthdude]

She is just amazing.We need more People like Her

[@guymartin8167]

I love your songs Rhiannon.....
Love what your doing.
Your voice blows me away + im a history buff...
Vicksburg Mississippi❤️

[@billygoat1883]

She has a beautiful voice and really sings from the heart! Excellent.

[@DCShaneTours]

Very, very good; both the discussion and the music.

[@elredlenny5731]

An Amazing Woman.5 🌟☮️ to all

[@FeelsFlows]

Amazing Vibes.

[@NathanaelFosaaen]

Why is she so awesome?

[@thomaskline]

Intelligence is an amazing aphrodisiac!

[@drowe1351]

Ms Giddens has a very rare gift. What a pleasure to listen to her. Enjoy the gift that she shares with us all and learn a little from her, you'll be a better person for it!