Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi
Image credit: © Ebru Yildiz
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Priority Booking for this event will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 24 September at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.
General sale for this event will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 7 October.
Giddens has centred her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased, and advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art. She is joined by Turin-born Francesco Turrisi whose Dublin base reflects his global sensibilities. Through a chance musical meet-up in Ireland, they found that Giddens’s 19th-century American minstrel banjo tunes and Turrisi’s traditional Sicilian Tamburello (tambourine) rhythms fit very naturally together.