Award-winning performer and host Rhiannon Giddens introduces viewers to stars of the current Irish acoustic music scene, taking us on a tour around Ireland, her adopted home, in the new season of MY MUSIC. 

Like America, Ireland has long embraced and taken fresh energy from the music of its immigrants. The new season of MY MUSIC WITH RHIANNON GIDDENS will accompany 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 music, introducing them to millions of American viewers. 

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and impresario, Rhiannon draws from many musical traditions including blues, jazz, folk, hiphop, African, Celtic, classical, and jug band. She bridges contemporary and traditional forms, and few musicians have done more to revitalize old-time influences in current music.

Giddens grew up in the North Carolina Piedmont where her formative memories include hearing her uncle’s bluegrass band and Hank Williams songs on the radio and watching Roy Clark “pickin' and grinnin' ” every Saturday night on Hee Haw. Clark’s prowess on the banjo sparked Rhiannon’s interest, but the instrument and its related traditions felt at odds with her ethnic background.

Learn more about Rhiannon’s unique musical knowledge as well as the background of those she meets in season 3 of MY MUSIC WITH RHIANNON GIDDENS.