Just Added at Straz Center: Rhiannon Giddens Appears with Dead Horses

Straz Center for the Performing Arts

Rhiannon Giddens with Dead Horses (Dead Horses - already scheduled for April 23 as part of the Club Jaeb series - will open the show.)

Monday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m.

Ferguson Hall

Rhiannon Giddens is the co-founder of the Grammy-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, in which she also plays banjo and fiddle. Her elegant bearing, prodigious voice and fierce spirit is abundantly evident on her critically acclaimed solo debut, the Grammy-nominated album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, which masterfully blends American musical genres, showcasing her extraordinary emotional range and dazzling vocal prowess.

Giddens' follow-up album Freedom Highway was released in 2017 and includes nine original songs Giddens wrote or co-wrote along with a traditional song and two civil rights-era songs, "Birmingham Sunday" and Staple Singers' well-known "Freedom Highway," from which the album takes its name.

Giddens, who studied opera at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, duets with country superstar Eric Church on his powerful anti-racism song "Kill a Word" and made her acting debut with a recurring role on the CMT television drama Nashville.

Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, Feb. 2, and are available online beginning at 10 a.m., and by phone and in person at the Straz Center Ticket Sales office beginning at 12 p.m. Regularly priced tickets are $25-$44.75. Tickets may be purchased by calling 813.229.STAR (7827) or 800.955.1045 outside Tampa Bay, in person at the Straz Center Ticket Sales Office or online at www.strazcenter.org. Handling fees will apply. For more information about the Straz Center for the Performing Arts and its upcoming events, visit www.strazcenter.org.

Events, days, dates, times, performers and prices are subject to change without notice.

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