Rhiannon Giddens performs with Regina Carter and John Jeremiah Sullivan as part of the Lost Love Song program June 22 at Kenan Auditorium as part of UNCW's Lumina Festival of the Arts [StarNews File]
New Bern, North Carolina
By
John Staton StarNews Staff
Posted Jul 5, 2019
The celebration of art, dance, music,
theater, film, opera, poetry and more runs July 12-28 on campus.
Performers include famed N.C. singer Rhiannon Giddens.
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‘Lost Love Song’
A uncommon blend of songs,
stories and history featuring the powerhouse trio of singer, songwriter
and musician Rhiannon Giddens (of Carolina Chocolate Drops fame);
acclaimed multi-genre violinist Regina Carter; and Wilmington-based
writer John Jeremiah Sullivan, who recently penned a profile of Giddens
for The New Yorker that delved into the singer’s, and his own, interest
in the racially charged violence that afflicted Wilmington in the
infamous year of 1898. 1898 was the focus of a musical program Sullivan
and Giddens did in Wilmington at the Cucalorus Festival in November, and
“Lost Love Song” should follow along similar lines as the participants
delve into a story with both wide-ranging import and local threads.
Co-presented by Sullivan’s Third Person Project — a group dedicated to
art, culture, history and documentary work with a focus on the Cape Fear
— it’s about how a forgotten song by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a black
London composer influenced by a Wilmington singer, Carrie Sadgwar of the
Fisk Jubilee Singers, may hold the key to the origins of the blues. Not
to be missed. 7:30 p.m. July 22 at Kenan Auditorium. $40-$50.
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