The Enduring Message

Giddens necessitates studying historic banjo traditions and bringing parts of the old music forward to create new sounds and meaning. She performs historic music from a range of cultures and places. When asked how to approach performing music that is external to one's lived experience, she answers that it's a simple yet endless practice. To consciously interact with the music, one must learn as much as possible about the context of when the music was made, who it was made by, and where the roots of that music came from. The message Giddens seeks to convey is that we're more alike than we could imagine, and those similarities are realized when we are able to see one another's histories, present beings, and futures as whole.