Rhiannon Giddens @RhiannonGiddens Twitter profile

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Rhiannon Giddens

9 months

It’s HERE! You spend all these years creating this music- living the experiences that inform it, listening to the people who inspire it, meeting the collaborators who perform it- and then all at once, it's a living work that's out in the world.

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@RhiannonGiddens

3 months

You didn’t know you needed a #banjoauntie . Now you know.

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@RhiannonGiddens

1 month

Every time i pick up my banjo (made by Jim Hartel) I feel a lick or tune wanting to escape into the world. This is one of hundreds that come and go. I play this banjo, a replica of a banjo style from 1858, because it feels deeply cultural and spiritual to me.

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Take two…y’all, the love I’ve been feeling from my community in the last couple days has been giving me life. #banjoauntie always fighting for our history and the truth. Love y’all ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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3 months

I woke up yesterday morning to new music from @Beyonce ...featuring none other than my banjo and viola playing throughout!! Her single “Texas Hold ‘Em” is the first off her new country-inspired record, #actii . Listen now! 🪕🐝

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@RhiannonGiddens

9 months

We should have listened to her THEN. Rest in peace 💔💔💔

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@RhiannonGiddens

4 years

This song, "Build a House", came knocking a week ago and I had to let it in. What can I say about what’s been happening, what has happened, & what continues to happen, in this country, in the world? There’s too many words & none, all at once. So I let the music speak, as usual.

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@RhiannonGiddens

1 year

OMG!!!! Screaming!!!!!!!! THANK YOU @PulitzerPrizes @michaelabels @SpoletoFestival 😭😭

The Pulitzer Prizes

@PulitzerPrizes

1 year

Congratulations to @RhiannonGiddens , @michaelabels and @SpoletoFestival . #Pulitzer

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3 years

I am grateful for every time I get to grow a day older. It is a privilege.

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@RhiannonGiddens

4 years

Imagine if them fellas moved as fast and decisively to help America through Covid as they are replacing a woman who’s barely in her grave.

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@RhiannonGiddens

5 years

The soundtrack for Red Dead Redemption 2 is out today! I recorded two songs for it – “Mountain Hymn” and “Mountain Banjo”. Take a listen!

Rockstar Games

@RockstarGames

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The Music Of Red Dead Redemption 2: Original Soundtrack is now available on all major digital music platforms, including @AppleMusic and @Spotify . Details:

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I couldn't have said any of this better. It's a REALLY great breakdown of some of the history that #CowboyCarter rests on - thank you @TeenVogue for your scholarship and journalism! p.s. that's Dena Jennings, who was Black Banjo Renaissance #21 :)

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3 months

I think it’s important to mention at this juncture that I am a banjo scholar and early non-commercial country music enthusiast- for the real work on Country music as a genre, and our place in it, check out the brilliance of @RissiPalmer - she KNOWS!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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@RhiannonGiddens

9 months

Dropping another new song today feat. @JasonIsbell as my duet partner! "Yet To Be" is the story of a black woman and an Irish man falling in love in America. It's a story that has happened many times in our brutal, real, and undertold history. Listen:

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2 months

Let’s not make new mythology about Country music- let’s take this opportunity to get it right this time.

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@RhiannonGiddens

3 months

Love all the agitation over “is it country???” Re: Texas Hold ‘Em. Reality is genre was created wholesale to sell our own music, American music of all kinds, back to us. Capitalism gotta capitalize…meanwhile the world burns.

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5 years

Hazel Scott was a Trinidad-born, NY-raised concert & jazz pianist; trained classically at Julliard, she was recognized early for her prodigal gifts.

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@RhiannonGiddens

2 months

Anyone who would like to have respectful dialogue on here, I’m so up for it! Name calling and toxicity, I’m not- I will block immediately. Hope everyone finds their joy. ❤️

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28 days

Your moment of banjo zen, this fine saturday - fellow North Carolinian Elizabeth Cotten playing Georgie Buck on her banjo. She's massive in the lineage.

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4 years

Guys!!! Guys!!! Statues don’t talk! You want some history? Crack a book! Fund education! Raise teachers salaries! Oh so many choices. And put the statue in a museum if you simply must as long as the plaque talks about how we used to celebrate slavery with statues.

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4 years

I have mostly kept quiet on what is happening because I’m afraid once I open my mouth the screaming will never stop

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@RhiannonGiddens

7 months

There’s nothing I love more than stripping things back for some old time jams. The sound you’re hearing comes from a gourd viola & banjo made by @MenziesInstrum1 . They’re reproductions of instruments from the 1800s & with them they bring back the history & voices of our ancestors

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@RhiannonGiddens

3 years

My seven-year-old: ‘I think war is the stupidest thing ever in the whole world.’ Me too, son. Me too.

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3 years

Damn you ‘Rona you had to take Charley too. RIP you legend- all of us country folk who share your pigmentations will always look up to you. 💔💔💔

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27 days

Throw back to 2018 when I recorded some vids for the Met, in the instrument room. I was looking for a video of Etta Baker playing Cripple Creek but I can't find one yet - so here's me doing her version of it. She has this wicked third part that I love.

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@RhiannonGiddens

3 years

Just playing some 19th century early banjo tunes…covid will never defeat the banjo

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@RhiannonGiddens

4 years

Proud to share that I will be stepping in to replace @YoYo_Ma as the new Artistic Director of the @silkroadproject . My keenest desire for Silkroad is a sharpening and reinterpretation of what it means for the ‘right now.’ Thank you for this honor. ❤️

SILKROAD

@silkroadproject

4 years

Silkroad is excited to announce that celebrated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist @RhiannonGiddens has been appointed as the next Artistic Director of Silkroad! Read the full press release here:

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@RhiannonGiddens

3 years

Hi all! So looking forward to my September tour. I’ve thought about this long and hard, and have decided that all of my shows will require vax or tests at the door. All our venues have worked to make this happen or already had those requirements in place—which has been wonderful.

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@RhiannonGiddens

9 months

'I Shall Not Be Moved' was made popular during the Civil Rights movement. @fraturrisi and I perform a particular version that I learned from my mentor, Joe Thompson- the North Carolina/Piedmont version. Recorded at the US Ambassador's Residence, Dublin for @OtherVoicesLive

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@RhiannonGiddens

2 years

You brought me here to build a house. I will not be moved. @YoYo_Ma Video by Noir Prism Studios

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@RhiannonGiddens

2 years

Omg I want to cry fuck it I am crying YAS Queen Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed

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@RhiannonGiddens

4 years

It was ten years ago yesterday that the Carolina Chocolate Drops made their debut. That album went on to win us a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Hear it again or for the first time at

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2 years

During the summer of 2020 I was struggling... I was locked down while protests raged across America & I felt furious, despairing, impotent. When I don’t know where else to turn—I let the emotion and spirit & ancestral connection speak through me. “Build a House” was the result.

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My last day as an Artist-In-Residence as part of the Southern Futures project in conjunction with @UNCPerformArts at @UNC , in Wilson Library, doing primary source research. The whole team has been absolutely incredible and I will value this collaboration for years to come. ❤️❤️❤️

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2 years

Snowed in with a bag of white lily flour so made biscuits just for me

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5 years

This #blackgirlnerd almost lost it when he said he enjoyed my performance- reminded me of another time, remember @levarburton ?!?! Life is good.

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@RhiannonGiddens

2 years

Thank you!!!

Nonesuch Records

@NonesuchRecords

2 years

Congrats @RhiannonGiddens , #GRAMMYs winner for Best Folk Album for #TheyreCallingMeHome with @fraturrisi !

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1 month

Thinking a lot about so many things. Here’s a home iphone video of the airing of the time that Jamie Dick, @chancemccoy , & i played “He’s Gone (aka Gonna Write Me a Letter)” by fellow North Carolina banjo player Ola Belle Reed, and we just killed it on the @opry . It was so fun.

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2 years

Well, after 18 years, I was afforded the opportunity to return to the operatic stage—and my first time, at age 44, in a professional production. I have been blessed with a first rate cast and production team and feel so incredibly grateful to be able to do this. 📸: @lukejamroz

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4 years

Workin, always workin!

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1 year

He’s deserving of life whether he plays classical music or not; whether he excels in paper school or not; nobody on earth deserves to be shot in the head for ringing the wrong doorbell. And yes….the gun. The gun. The gun.

Ralph Yarl, organized by Faith Spoonmore

****Update***** Hello everybody, On behalf of Ralph and our entire family, thank you so much for your ge… Faith Spoonmore needs your support for Ralph Yarl

www.gofundme.com

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2 years

First we made an album, then we became a supergroup, and now...we're playing @CarnegieHall for one, very special night!!! Excited to perform with these melanated, banjo-playing goddesses on Nov. 4 for an @ONDaughters reunion. Tickets are still available at the link in my bio!

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1 year

Ok now that the shock has worn off (jk, it probably never will) I have to say a humongous thank you to the @PulitzerPrizes committee for recognizing this piece & for giving the remarkable story of Omar ibn Said more light.

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3 years

Trying so hard not to cry for so many reasons...the results, hard won, the respite earned, and the 70 million who voted for such a man.

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2 months

I bought yarn for my birthday and new pattern books at @LoopYarn in London and I’m ridiculously content. Looking forward to a great show tonight at @BarbicanCentre . Love you all! #BirthdayGirl

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5 years

My cover of #CruelWorld released today on @billboard . Give it a listen: @WillieNelson @daniellanois

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3 months

Oh my goodness Brussels! This tour is heating up- all the shows have been amazing so far! It’s Hamburg Sat at a sold out Elbphilharmonie!

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@RhiannonGiddens

3 years

Vaxxed.

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4 years

What a thing to mark this 155th anniversary of Juneteenth with that beautiful soul, @YoYo_Ma . Honored to have it out in the world. Full video:

Rhiannon Giddens featuring Yo-Yo Ma - "Build A House"

From Rhiannon: "This song came knocking about a week ago and I had to open the door and let it in. What can I say about what’s been happening, what has happ...

www.youtube.com

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Rhiannon Giddens

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2 years

Cooking up something fun! A sweet reunion with @belafleckbanjo

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@RhiannonGiddens

1 year

hope you all tuned in last night to see the glory that is @paulsimonmusic . #AmericanTune has become part of my own set, and sharing a moment onstage with Paul to perform it will stay with me for the rest of my lifetime. ♥️

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4 years

A reminder. First they stole our bodies Then they stole our sons Then they stole our God And gave us a new one Then they stole our beauty The comfort in our skins Then they gave us duty And they gave us sin... Full video:

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2 years

We are in Santa Fe with @NashvilleBallet and so excited to hear that our ode to love and loss, They’re Calling Me Home, recorded by ourselves and Ben Rawlings in Ireland, was given Best Folk Grammy. Much love to all my other fam there ❤️❤️❤️

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2 years

What a lovely reunion with @marcusmumford and @ElvisCostello ! True gents and massive talents both. ❤️

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3 years

Differences are natural. Divisiveness is always artificial- and usually created by a selfish agenda. Have a biscuit.

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2 years

Folks ask me how I plan to fill @YoYo_Ma ’s shoes as the new Artistic Director of @silkroadproject and the answer is simple… I don’t wear shoes! Thank you to @washingtonpost for bringing Silkroad’s story to life. ❤️ Our tour begins tonight at @Caramoor !

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10 months

These snowflakes….we can’t critique @Jason_Aldean ‘s shitty song but omg somebody ban MAUS

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6 months

Well played, youngest child. Well played.

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2 years

Just because I highlight long erased and forgotten black co-creators of American roots music doesn’t mean I don’t believe there were white ones- it’s there in the ‘co’. I mean, do I really have to keep saying this?

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7 years

I will continue to stand up for the voiceless and to tell the stories of this great nation. If that loses me fans, so be it.

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2 years

Do it for the Gram(my)

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4 years

Ireland, you seldom disappoint...

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1 year

officially in Italy #colazioneitaliana @fraturrisi

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2 years

i'm moving all my fiddle repertoire over to viola and it's so fun! still working on that intonation but man what a great growl! i love this thing...

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4 years

Oh my goodness my hands are starting to crack with all the hand washing but let me take this moment to appreciate that I have clean running water to wash them in. Not everyone does.

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3 years

I’m now fully vaxxd and with a fresh negative test- ready to hug the entire world

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2 years

Have got a little something up my sleeve 🤫

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4 years

Some people seem to be nostalgic for a past that never was

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1 year

Happy (biscuit) Sunday!

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4 years

Love this pic...my collection has grown since... (taken in 2012!!)

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4 years

We can’t talk about police culture without also talking about gun culture - they BOTH need massive reform.

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2 months

After looking at the lyrics of this modern ballad, I did the folk thing. Brought it into my time, space, emotions — so it morphed, swirled, & suddenly Sally Ann came through my banjo. Grateful to be part of @MsAliceRandall ’s black girl magic reclamation.

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2 years

First we made an album, then we became a supergroup, and now...we're playing @CarnegieHall for one, very special night!!! Excited to perform with these melanated, banjo-playing goddesses on Nov. 4 for an @ONDaughters reunion. Tickets are still available at the link in my bio!

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4 years

Kamala is pronounced ‘comma-la’ - Rhiannon is pronounced ‘ree-ANN-on’, pass it on if you have a name people mispronounce a lot!

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5 years

Caught playing my minstrel banjo - with era appropriate tunes - inside of the @metmuseum . #fbf

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6 years

Well I just keep getting moist-eyed these days... @NPR named me in its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century.

Rhiannon Giddens Is The 21st Century's Revelator

Giddens' influence is not contained by her many accolades but by her drive to unearth forgotten stories, developing the ethos of a new reconstruction based in truth-telling.

www.npr.org

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1 year

On the heels of @PulitzerPrizes news...I'm honored to announce the release of my new solo album- You're the One- out Aug. 18 on @NonesuchRecords !! This is a special one, my first of ALL originals! Pre-order now & listen to my first single #YouretheOne :

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3 months

A great list of amazing musicians!

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3 years

This was literally the worst day to go off sugar and alcohol

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3 years

I got the 'Rona, y'all. Dang - after all the flying, travelling and touring, i got it in my own house. Thankfully my symptoms are not too bad - thanks J&J for keeping it mild! But unfortunately this means as a result this weekend’s shows will have to be cancelled.

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2 years

Another year young ✨🥳 thanks for all the bday love! 📸: @ebruyildiz

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5 years

This soundtrack is blowing up...woah! @RockstarGames #RDR2 @RollingStone

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26 days

Managed to come home for a few days of rest and felinecation ❤️

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2 years

Oh my lord. I mean I knew it was coming but it still makes me want to scream cry and rage.

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3 years

Is this really the ‘Night the Right Went Out of Georgia’??? Surely a million people have thought of this already 😂

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2 years

Surely there are other things happening, like in Puerto Rico, Japan, and etc, in the world other than that funeral

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3 years

Just the fact that it was EVER in question is enough to know how much work we gotta do still. But a step, the veriest small step. #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

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5 years

Hey y'all...it's this very special lady's special day, & it's our job here at RG HQ to give her a shout out on all public & social platforms. (Guess that's what happens when you give us your logins, Rhi.) Wishing a very warm & HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our girl, Rhiannon! #RhiRhiParty

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2 years

Regarding this day a year ago: when people show you who you are, believe them.

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4 months

What a difference 11 years makes! My baby boy, my brilliant son - happy birthday!!!!❤️❤️❤️

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2 years

‘Lo Bess…

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3 years

Together again! Top secret project, but it was soooooo fun!!! Love these ladies ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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2 years

And the magic keeps coming with the wondrous @adiavictoria - tell that truth sis!

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7 years

Proud to be among these fine folks as a @macfound MacArthur Fellow for 2017! #MacFellow

MacArthur Foundation Fellows: Winners List (Published 2017)

The fellowships are awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for exceptional “originality, insight and potential.”

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

This hero right here. Let’s see it through in her name.

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We're back at it! A little minstrel banjo & gourd viola for a beautiful Saturday morning, made by Jeff @MenziesInstrum1 . To be out in nature in NC with these instruments in hand, we can feel the connective threads of generations who laid down their roots here before us.