My Music with Rhiannon Giddens

Arts and Music Series / 3 Seasons

Grammy winner and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens hosts a new half-hour series of musical performance and conversation with outstanding guest artists—innovative and accomplished musicians and storytellers who have forged unconventional paths to find their voices.

24m 35s / TV-G

Niwel Tsumbu

S3 E5 / 24m 35s / TV-PG

Niwel Tsumbu is a guitarist and singer who grew up in Kinshasa with the traditional Soukous music of the Congo. He studied classical guitar at a prestigious music school in Central Africa before moving to Ireland, where he married and is raising his family. Rhiannon visits Niwel at his and his wife’s family farm near Kinsale in County Cork.

Emer Mayock

S3 E4 / 24m 35s / TV-G

Emer Mayock is a devoted daughter of County Mayo who played tin whistle as a child and now performs on flute and uilleann pipes. She has composed music for the theatre and documentaries. She visits with Rhiannon at one of her favorite performance venues, the Bridge Street pub in Castlebar, County Mayo.

Enda Scahill

S3 E3 / 24m 35s / TV-G

Enda Scahill is a banjo master from Corofin, County Galway. He is a four-time All-Ireland Champion who has performed with The Fureys, Frankie Gavin, and The Chieftains. Rhiannon and Enda are joined by young guitarist Simon Crehan and prize-winning Irish step dancer Stephanie Keane at Studio Cuan in Spiddal on Galway Bay.

Loah

S3 E2 / 24m 35s / TV-G

Loah (Sallay Garnett) is Irish and Sierra Leonean. She is an actor, singer-songwriter, and instrumentalist—as well as a licensed pharmacist! Host Rhiannon visits with Loah at Connolly's of Leap, a legendary 500-year-old pub in West Cork.

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Róisín Elsafty

S3 E1 / 24m 35s / TV-G

Róisín Elsafty is a native Irish speaker and singer in the sean-nós (“old time”) tradition who comes from a musical family: her mother and sisters are also respected vocalists. But the family’s influences also included Umm Kulthum and the music of Róisín’s father’s Egyptian homeland. Rhiannon visits with Róisín in the Gothic Church at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara.

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