It brings some of the world’s leading classical and jazz musicians to Ventura County, and the Ojai Music Festival has revealed the music director taking the helm for next year will be Rhiannon Giddens.
"She's one of these musicians who lives across every genre and boundary that I know of," the festival's artistic director Ara Guzelimian told KCLU.
He said next year’s festival is going to "one of the widest ranging" festivals.
"As always there will be a number of pop-up and planned free community events," said Guzelimian.
Giddens co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. She most recently won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for They’re Calling Me Home, and was also nominated for Best American Roots Song for Avalon from They’re Calling Me Home, which she made with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi.
The 77th Ojai Music Festival runs June 8 -11, 2023.
