Rhiannon Giddens

I'm a musician and a lover of music in my late 70s, I've been to the Newport Folk Festival and NOLA Jazzfest. I've listened to Muddy Waters in blues clubs, Jimi Hendrix and Joplin on the big state, Bonnie Raitt and Brandi Carlisle close up, Mavis Staples, Habib Koite and Toumani Diabate. This was the best show I've experienced in my life. The venue, the live sound- both fabulous, but more than that Rhiannon Giddens' consummate musicianship and deeply moving performance, the outstanding virtuosity and teamwork of her band- both as individuals and together, the variety of music, the clear shining joy of the band as a team, and her SINGING. I feel like a bell that has been rung and will ring for a long time.