Announced today - Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One will be released August 18 on Nonesuch Records. The album is the GRAMMY, MacArthur and Pulitzer-winning singer, composer, and instrumentalist’s third solo studio album and her first of all original songs; her last solo album was 2017’s critically acclaimed Freedom Highway. This collection of 12 songs written over the course of Giddens’ career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants.

It was also announced yesterday that Giddens has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for the opera Omar, which she co-wrote with Michael Abels (Get Out, Nope). Omar, based on the autobiography of an enslaved Muslim man, Omar Ibn Said, who lived in Charleston, SC in the 19th century, made its world premiere last year at Spoleto Festival and has been performed at LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and North Carolina Arts, with San Francisco Opera scheduled for this November.

Giddens has also announced the biggest headlining tour of her career, including a stop at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater on September 18. This show is presented by The Ark with support from WEMU. Tickets are priced at $66, $51, and $41 with a VIP preshow experience also available. Tickets will go on sale Friday, May 19. Watch your inbox next week for your invitation to access tickets on Thursday, May 18, before they go on sale to the public!