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Rhiannon Giddens Starts Biscuits & Banjos Music Festival to Celebrate Black Culture

Rhiannon Giddens Starts Biscuits & Banjos Music Festival to Celebrate Black Culture

Rhiannon Giddens is starting a music festival. The Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician announced today that her first Biscuits & Banjos music festival will take place in Durham North Carolina next April as a celebration of Black music, art, and culture and the 20th anniversary of the Black Banjo Gathering.

SPOTLIGHT: Joy Clark 'Lesson' [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Joy Clark 'Lesson' [VIDEO]

EDITOR'S NOTE: Joy Clark is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for Oct. 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Tell it to the Wind (out Oct. 4 on Righteous Babe Records), in this interview, and look for more all month long. Grandmothers carry and impart a

BONUS TRACKS: Hello From No Depression's New Web Editor

BONUS TRACKS: Hello From No Depression's New Web Editor

Hello all! This story starts with a chance meeting in a coffee shop, orchestrated by folk musician Willi Carlisle. Meeting No Depression’s dynamite managing editor Hilary Saunders that frigid March day, I couldn’t have imagined I’d end up here, nor was it anyone’s intention, I think.