Book Talk and Musical Performance with Kristina Gaddy | Go Back and Fetch It
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Book Talk and Musical Performance with Kristina Gaddy | Go Back and Fetch It
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | 6:00 - 7:30pm
Free, but registration is required at https://lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/16757051
Limited free parking is available underneath the Library at 800 East Broad Street. Seating in the Lecture Hall is available on a first come, first served basis.
Join author Kristina Gaddy for an evening of music and history as she plays tunes and songs from 18th and 19th century Virginia and speaks about early banjo history. In her book, “Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History,” Gaddy tells an extraordinary story unfolding across 200 years, uncovering the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual and rebellion. She will also play tunes from her book “Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo,” co-authored with Rhiannon Giddens.
Gaddy, a Baltimore-based writer and fiddler, is also the author of “A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and their Crusade Against Slavery” (Dutton 2025) and “Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis” (Dutton 2020). She co-authored “Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo” with Rhiannon Giddens. For her writing and research, Gaddy has received the Parsons Award from the Library of Congress, the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, residencies at Hedgebrook and The Mastheads, and a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Rubys artist award.
A book signing will follow the program.
For more information, contact [email protected].
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | 6:00 - 7:30pm
Free, but registration is required at https://lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/16757051
Limited free parking is available underneath the Library at 800 East Broad Street. Seating in the Lecture Hall is available on a first come, first served basis.
Join author Kristina Gaddy for an evening of music and history as she plays tunes and songs from 18th and 19th century Virginia and speaks about early banjo history. In her book, “Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History,” Gaddy tells an extraordinary story unfolding across 200 years, uncovering the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual and rebellion. She will also play tunes from her book “Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo,” co-authored with Rhiannon Giddens.
Gaddy, a Baltimore-based writer and fiddler, is also the author of “A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and their Crusade Against Slavery” (Dutton 2025) and “Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis” (Dutton 2020). She co-authored “Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo” with Rhiannon Giddens. For her writing and research, Gaddy has received the Parsons Award from the Library of Congress, the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, residencies at Hedgebrook and The Mastheads, and a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Rubys artist award.
A book signing will follow the program.
For more information, contact [email protected].
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800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23219
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