![]() & Communications) Pulitzer and ‘Porgy & Bess’ ![]() This fall’s national “American Railroad” tour by the 13-piece multinational ensemble - whose lineup features Carlsbad-based pipa master Wu Man - includes a Friday concert at San Diego’s Balboa Theater. In 2020, she succeeded famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the artistic director of the borders- and genre-blurring Silkroad Ensemble. In 2019, she was featured in Ken Burns’ 16-hour, eight-part PBS TV documentary “Country Music,” during which she explored the African roots of the banjo. She has won multiple Living Blues Awards, an International Folk Music Award and a Society of Composers & Lyricists Award. In 2017, Giddens became a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, which is widely known as the Genius Grant. The same year saw her win the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. In 2016, she was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame as a member of the vintage-music-championing Carolina Chocolate Drops, a string and vocal group. ![]() (Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images) A Steve Martin prize-winner ![]()
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