Carolina Quotes
Music has a power to bring us together in ways books, lectures, and indoctrination don't.
Rhiannon Giddens Carolinian
Source
"Community and Connection," keynote address, International Bluegrass Music Association business conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 26, 2017
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- Community and Connection, IBMA keynote address
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- 2017
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