Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell Explore Reconstruction-Era Music (Archives)




Soundcheck show

Summary: <p class="textbox">African-American string band tradition meets Cajun/Creole and Appalachian music in a collaboration between singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, actor and MacArthur Fellow Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, a multi-instrumentalist, singer, arranger, songwriter, and actor himself. Together, with banjos and fiddles, they play each other's original songs, music that takes on the slave condition of pre-Civil War times, and chat about their recent project, songs tied to the Reconstruction era culture of the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre/536457/">Wilmington, North Carolina Massacre of 1898.</a> (From the Archives, 2018.)</p> <p class="textbox">Set list: </p> <ul> I’m Gonna Write Me A Letter  Say Old Playmate  At the Purchaser’s Option  </ul>