They won the 2022 Grammy for Best Folk Album for their stirring work, “They’re Calling Me Home;” now music maven Rhiannon Giddens and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi come to the Moss Arts Center to share the exultant sounds from the ballads, folk songs, and lullabies of their native and adoptive countries of America, Italy, and Ireland.
The duo takes the stage of the center’s Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, located within the Street and Davis Performance Hall at 190 Alumni Mall, on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops and MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient, Giddens creates music that excavates the past and reveals bold truths about the present. She and Turrisi recorded “They’re Calling Me Home” during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland, where they both live when not on tour. The two expats found themselves exploring the emotions brought up by the moment and decamped to a small studio on a working farm outside of Dublin to record the 12-track album over six days.
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