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An online series from Blue Ridge Music Center features Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder and Grammy Award-winner Rhiannon Giddens in conversation about women in the music industry.
“A Place in the Band: Women in Bluegrass & American Roots Music” dropped on Tuesday at the Galax-based music center’s YouTube channel, with links posted at blueridgemusiccenter.org. Interviews with Giddens, upright bass juggernaut Missy Raines and North Carolina Folk Festival director Amy Grossman launched a 10-part series, according to a news release from the the Blue Ridge Parkway-based venue.
The series, which Blue Ridge Music Center associate program director Marianne Kovatch created, sprang from a 2020 project that honored the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. The right to vote was just one step on the path toward equality, Kovatch wrote in an email conversation. ....

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