Mar 29, 2019 9:42 AM
‘Songs Of Our Native Daughters’ Gives Ancestors Voice
When she sings certain songs, Rhiannon Giddens feels herself become an oracle. The medium her messengers speak through…
Songs Of Our Native Daughters—a collaborative set from Rhiannon Giddens (left), Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah—pushes back against expectations of American folk music, setting the record straight with a powerful quartet of black women who play banjos, fiddles and acoustic guitars.
Mar 29, 2019 9:42 AM
When she sings certain songs, Rhiannon Giddens feels herself become an oracle. The medium her messengers speak through…
Leyla McCalla
Apr 18, 2016 4:33 PM
Leyla McCalla is a Haitian-American folksinger, cello player, banjoist and songwriter. She picked up the cello when she…