Grammy winning duo Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi to perform charity gig at Dublin's Liberty Hall

GRAMMY award winning artists Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi have announced a charity gig at The Liberty Hall Theatre in Dublin on 17 October 2024.

The charity concert will be in aid of Ruhama, which fight against sexual exploitation and human trafficking, and Sonas, who offer frontline services to people suffering from domestic violence.

The widely-acclaimed Americana artist Rhiannon Giddens has had a fruitful period of collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, with the duo independently settling in Ireland in recent years. Through a chance musical meet-up in Ireland, they found that Giddens' 19th century American Minstrel banjo tunes and Turrisi’s traditional Sicilian Tamburello (Tambourine) rhythms fit very naturally together.

Their latest release, They're Calling Me Home, in 2021 took home the GRAMMY Award for “Best Folk Album”. The twelve-track opus was recorded with Turrisi in Ireland during the pandemic; it discusses the longing for the comfort of home as well as the figurative "calling home" of death, which became a tangible reality for many during lockdown.

The duo have been lauded for their onstage chemistry, creating a kind of performance alchemy with their incomparable fusion of Americana and Minstrel tunes with Italian and Sicilian sonic traditions. Indeed, Rhiannon Giddens and Franscesco Turrisi are a force of nature perhaps best heard live and in person.

Tickets for Giddens and Turrisi's Liberty Hall charity gig start from €35.00 and are available for purchase via Eventbrite.