Rhiannon Giddens announced the dates today for an upcoming tour that will celebrate her acclaimed second solo album, Freedom Highway. Giddens will hit Baltimore, Tampa, Cincinnati and a number of other cities as she travels around the country. Tickets will be available on Friday, February 2nd and 10 a.m. local time.
Giddens’ tour announcement isn’t necessarily the biggest event in her life right now. The MacArthur Foundation just awarded Giddens with its prestigious “MacArthur Fellowship,” that some refer to as a “genius grant.” The Foundation awards its grants “to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future.” The fellowship includes $625,000 that is distributed over five years and can be spent however the grant winner pleases.
Giddens said that she was “thrilled” to announce her Fellowship. She wanted to first thank whoever nominated her for the grant. “It means the world to me, and to the projects I have been longing to do.”
Freedom Highway topped a lot of lists in 2017. NPR Music says, “[Giddens] time-travels from antebellum New Orleans to the present day, touching upon spirituals and the blues, Cajun dance music and hip-hop.”
Be sure to take a listen to Giddens’ album. Tickets for her tour can be found here.
Rhiannon Giddens Tour Dates
February 7 | Brooklyn, NY | National Sawdust [with Lara Downes]
February 9 | New York, NY | Irish Arts Center [Duo with Dirk Powell]
February 10 | New York, NY | Irish Arts Center [Duo with Dirk Powell]
February 11 | New York, NY | Irish Arts Center [Duo with Dirk Powell]
February 17 | Jackson, MS | Mississippi Museum of Art
February 24 | New York, NY | Soundtrack ’63 at The Apollo Theater
March 3 | New York, NY | Tibet House US Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall
March 25 | Los Angeles, CA | Women In Music Festival [with Lara Downes]
April 13 | Savannah, GA | Savannah Music Festival
April 14 | Raleigh, NC | PineCone Down Home Concert Series
April 15 | Greer, SC | The Spinning Jenny
April 17 | Rocky Mount, VA | Harvester Performance Center
April 18 | Norfolk, VA | Virginia Arts Festival
April 19 | Baltimore, MD | Baltimore Sound Stage
April 23 | Tampa, FL | Ferguson Hall at The Straz Center
April 24 | Madison, GA | Madison-Morgan Cultural Center
April 25 | Charleston, SC | Charleston Music Hall
April 27 | York, SC | McCelvey Center
April 28 | Wilkesboro, NC | MerleFest
May 14 | Ithaca, NY | Hangar Theatre
May 15 | Toronto, ON | Danforth Music Hall
May 17 | Grand Rapids, MI | St. Cecelia Music Center
May 18 | Ann Arbor, MI | Michigan Theater
May 20 | Cincinnati, OH | Memorial Hall OTR
May 22 | Pittsburgh, PA | Byham Theater
June 13 | Kennett Square, PA | Longwood Gardens
June 15 | Lowell, MA | Lowell Summers Music Series
June 20 | Ridgefield, CT | The Ridgefield Playhouse
June 21 |Boothbay Harbor, ME | The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
June 22 | St. Johnsbury, VT | St. Johnsbury Academy
June 28 | Frankfort, KY | The Grand Theatre
June 29 | Owensboro, KY | ROMP Festival
August 4 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Cambridge Folk Festival 2018
August 5 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Cherry Hinton Hill
August 15 | Chautauqua, NY | Chautauqua Amphitheater [Duo with Francesco Turrisi]
Photography Credit: Sharon Alagna
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