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Arts and Music

My Music with Rhiannon Giddens

Grammy winner and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens hosts a new half-hour series of musical performance and conversation with outstanding guest artists—innovative and accomplished musicians and storytellers who have forged unconventional paths to find their voices.

Karan Casey

24m 35s

Karan Casey is an Irish folk singer and a former member of the American-based Irish trad supergroup Solas. She now lives in Cork and performs with her husband, concertina master Niall Vallely. Rhiannon joins them at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City.

Episodes

  • Karan Casey: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Karan Casey

    S3 E6 - 24m 35s

    Karan Casey is an Irish folk singer and a former member of the American-based Irish trad supergroup Solas. She now lives in Cork and performs with her husband, concertina master Niall Vallely. Rhiannon joins them at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City.

  • Niwel Tsumbu: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Niwel Tsumbu

    S3 E5 - 24m 35s

    Niwel Tsumbu is a guitarist and singer who grew up in Kinshasa with the traditional Soukous music of the Congo. He studied classical guitar at a prestigious music school in Central Africa before moving to Ireland, where he married and is raising his family. Rhiannon visits Niwel at his and his wife’s family farm near Kinsale in County Cork.

  • Emer Mayock: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Emer Mayock

    S3 E4 - 24m 35s

    Emer Mayock is a devoted daughter of County Mayo who played tin whistle as a child and now performs on flute and uilleann pipes. She has composed music for the theatre and documentaries. She visits with Rhiannon at one of her favorite performance venues, the Bridge Street pub in Castlebar, County Mayo.

  • Loah: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Loah

    S3 E2 - 24m 35s

    Loah (Sallay Garnett) is Irish and Sierra Leonean. She is an actor, singer-songwriter, and instrumentalist—as well as a licensed pharmacist! Host Rhiannon visits with Loah at Connolly's of Leap, a legendary 500-year-old pub in West Cork.

  • Róisín Elsafty: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Róisín Elsafty

    S3 E1 - 24m 35s

    Róisín Elsafty is a native Irish speaker and singer in the sean-nós (“old time”) tradition who comes from a musical family: her mother and sisters are also respected vocalists. But the family’s influences also included Umm Kulthum and the music of Róisín’s father’s Egyptian homeland. Rhiannon visits with Róisín in the Gothic Church at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara.

Extras + Features

  • Cortège: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Cortège

    S3 E2 - 3m 11s

    Loah and Rhiannon Giddens perform "Cortège".

  • Season 3 Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Season 3 Preview

    S3 - 29s

    Season 3 of "My Music with Rhiannon Giddens” accompanies North Carolina's celebrated native daughter Rhiannon Giddens around her adopted home country of Ireland as she interviews and performs with some outstanding current stars of Irish traditional music.

Schedule

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