Rhiannon Giddens and her partner, Francesco Turrisi, are hoping to offer us some comfort with down-home tunes in this Tiny Desk (home) concert. And with banjos, fiddles, a bodhrán, and that stunning voice, it works.
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.
"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 best."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.
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