Rhiannon Giddens covers Nina Simone's "Black Swan," live in San Francisco, Feb. 13, 2020 (HD)

Rhiannon Giddens sings the aria "Black Swan" from Gian Carlo Menotti's 1947 opera The Medium, live in concert before a sold-out audience at SF Jazz in San Francisco, California on February 13, 2020. "Black Swan" was made famous by Nina Simone, who released it on her Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall album (1963). It is this version that Giddens covers in this performance. Joining her onstage were Francesco Turrisi (piano) and Jason Sypher (bass). Giddens and Turrisi put out a studio version of this cover song on their collaboration album There Is No Other, released on Nonesuch in May 2019.

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Official Show Description

Singer, violinist, banjo player, actress, Grammy-winner, and founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens returns with music from her new Nonesuch album, There Is No Other. The Greensboro, North Carolina native has assimilated a rich diversity of music traditions, from the country songs of her youth and the world of opera she was immersed in at Ohio’s Oberlin Conservatory to Celtic music and the gamut of African American song styles with roots in the Piedmont and the whole of the rural South. Born out of the success of the trio Sankofa Strings, Carolina Chocolate Drops have rightfully become a global phenomenon, and Giddens remains the group’s sole original member and driving force.

The multi-instrumentalist made a memorable step outside the group with her show-stopping performance at producer T Bone Burnett’s 2013 Town Hall concert, leading to Giddens’ Burnett-produced, Grammy-nominated full-length Nonesuch debut, Tomorrow is My Turn. On the heels of her 2017 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” fellowship, her deeply rewarding sophomore album Freedom Highway, and this year’s Songs of Our Native Daughters, her collaborative project with fellow string masters Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell, Giddens returns with There Is No Other. Produced by eminent singer and songwriter Joe Henry, the session traces the movement of sound from Africa and the Middle East to influence the musical traditions of Europe and the Americas, recorded in collaboration with Italian pianist and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, who joins Giddens for these dates along with bassist Jason Sypher.

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Black Swan lyrics:

The sun is falling and it lies in blood
The moon is weaving bandages of gold
O black swan, where oh where is my lover gone
Where oh where is my lover gone
Torn and tattered is my bridal gown and my lamp is lost

With silver needles and with silver thread
The stars stitch a shroud for the dying sun
O black swan, where oh where is my lover gone

I had given him a kiss of fire and a golden ring
And a golden ring
I had given him a kiss of fire and a golden ring
Oh with silver needles and with silver thread
The stars stitch a shroud for the dying sun

Don't you hear your lover moan?
Eyes of glass and feet of stone
Shells for teeth and weeds for tongue,
Deep, deep, down in the river's bed
He's looking for the ring.
Eyes wide open, never asleep,
He's looking for the ring, looking for the ring.
The spools unravel and the needles break.
The sun is buried, and the stars weep.

O black wave, O black wave take me away with you
I will share with you my golden hair,
And my bridal crown, and my bridal crown.

Oh, take me down with you.
Take me down to my wand'ring lover
With my child unborn,
With my child unborn.

Written by Gian Carlo Menotti

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Rhiannon Giddens - Live Tour Dates (2019-2020)

Dec. 1 - Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall
Dec. 3 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ TivoliVredenburg
Dec. 4 - Hamburg, Germany @ Fabrik
Dec. 5 - Darmstadt, Germany @ Centralstation
Dec. 7 - Cologne, Germany @ Kulturkirche
Dec. 8 - Leuven, Belgium @ Het Depot
Dec. 9 - Paris, France @ Café de la Danse
Dec. 10 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ De Duif
Jan. 17-18 - Turin, Italy @ Torino Folk Club
Feb. 7 - Stanford, CA @ Bing Concert Hall
Feb. 13-16 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJAZZ Center
Mar. 4 - Wellington, New Zealand @ New Zealand Festival
Mar. 7 - Adelaide, Australia @ WOMADelaide Festival
Mar. 8 - Port Fairy, Australia @ Port Fairy Folk Festival
Mar. 11 - Hobart, Australia @ Museum of Old and New Art
Mar. 14 - Melbourne, Australia @ Melbourne Recital Centre
Mar. 15 - Katoomba, Australia @ Blue Mountains Music Festival
Mar. 17 - Sydney, Australia @ Metro Theatre

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