Right this moment (September 17) is National Voter Registration Day. To mark the event, Rhiannon Giddens teamed up with Joy to the Polls and HeadCount to launch a brand new cowl of Peggy Seeger’s “How I Long for Peace.” Giddens made her new tune with singer-songwriter Crys Matthews and the Resistance Revival Chorus. Hear the monitor beneath.
“Rhiannon, Crys, and firm have performed an incredible interpretation of my tune ‘How I Lengthy for Peace,’” Peggy Seeger said. “It actually works and can take this straightforward tune to new ranges. Thanks, Rhiannon, as all the time—now it’s on its means!”
Giddens added, “When Crys requested me to collaborate on this along with her I obtained actually excited. I’ve been a longtime Peggy Seeger fan and suppose she has written an unimaginable tune that claims some laborious however essential issues and most significantly permits house for us all to want for a greater world.”
Final yr, Rhiannon Giddens gained the Pulitzer Prize for Music. She adopted her victory with the album You’re the One.
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