Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad

Passengers on a train don't often think of the tracks. But the critically acclaimed Silkroad Ensemble has explored the multicultural history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Sunday, November 17 at Hodgson Concert Hall, the ensemble, led by artistic director Rhiannon Giddens, presents American Railroad, a musical portrait of the varied people who laid the rails. Corporations and the American government financed the Transcontinental Railroad, but the people who actually built it — Indigenous and Black Americans as well as Irish, Chinese, Japanese, and other immigrant laborers — are the focus of American Railroad. For tickets to the Silkroad Ensemble, visit PAC.UGA.EDU or call the box office at (706) 542-4400.