Creative Writing for Kids vol 1 by Amanda J. Harrington

A singer and songwriter herself, Harrington occasionally collaborates with her sister on musical projects. Her sister Lalenja Harrington is a director for Beyond Academics, a four-year certificate program supporting students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Giddens and her sister grew up in Greensboro and nearby rural Gibsonville. Giddens' parents separated soon after her birth, when Deborah Giddens came out as a lesbian. David and Deborah met as college students in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother, Deborah Jamieson, is a descendant of African Americans and Native American tribes including the Lumbee, Occaneechi, and Seminole. Her father, David Giddens, is European-American. In 2023, the opera Omar, co-written by Giddens and Michael Abels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. The resulting album, Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, was a top-40 Billboard album. In 2014, she participated in the T Bone Burnett-produced project titled The New Basement Tapes along with several other musicians, which set a series of recently discovered Bob Dylan lyrics to newly composed music.

She appears in the Smithsonian Folkways collection documenting Mike Seeger's final trip through Appalachia in 2009, Just Around The Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles – Mike Seeger’s Last Documentary (2019).

Her 20 albums, There Is No Other and They're Calling Me Home are collaborations with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. In addition to her work with the Grammy-winning Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released two solo albums: Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) and Freedom Highway (2017). Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a founding member of the country, blues, and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she was the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player. Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music.

Creative Writing for Kids vol 1 by Amanda J. Harrington