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Five Things You Didn't Know About Bluesfest's Rhiannon Giddens

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"She can sing the entire theme song to a popular anime… in Japanese!"

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In the lead-up to the Byron Bay Bluesfest we spoke to some of the 200 artists who will be performing over the five-day festival, which kicks off on 24 Mar. We found out five fun and wacky things about Rhiannon Giddens:

  1. She can sing the entire theme song to a popular anime… in Japanese!
  2. She knits baby sweaters.
  3. She was Juliet in an opera.
  4. She loves writing sonnets.
  5. She loves skeeball.