'How long do I wait before I offer tea?': US star Rhiannon Giddens on living in Ireland

In advance of her appearance at Sounds from A Safe Harbour in Cork, Rhiannon Giddens talks Irish cultural subtleties and her fears around the Trump administration in the US 
'How long do I wait before I offer tea?': US star Rhiannon Giddens on living in Ireland

Rhiannon Giddens plays Cork Opera House as part of Sounds from a Safe Harbour. 

Rhiannon Giddens is the real deal – a Pulitzer Prize winner, a two-time Grammy Award winner, she’s recorded with Beyoncé, and she’s living amongst us.

Giddens lives in Castletroy, a suburb in Limerick City, where she’s raising her two children. She’s been based in Ireland for about a decade now but, having grown up in Greensboro, North Carolina, in America’s Deep South, she still struggles with some of the social nuances in her new homestead.

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