Rhiannon Giddens: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. May 28, 2020, Bob Boilen We re not doing my original songs, Rhiannon Giddens says, before she and her partner, Francesco Turrisi, launch into an old spiritual, cause with these kinds of emotions, the old songs say it Though acknowledging their good fortune a place to live, a bit of savings, their children being safe Rhiannon Giddens also pauses to tell us how the pandemic has altered their entire way of life. They canceled their tour of Japan and returned home to Ireland; Rhiannon lives in Limerick while Francesco lives a few hours away in Dublin where they recorded this Tiny Desk (home) concert. They re finding comfort in being together, making music together, thinking of t
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