# Silk Road Ensemble + Rhiannon Giddens: "St. James Infirmary Blues"

Singer Rhiannon Giddens joins international music collective Silk Road Ensemble to perform "St. James Infirmary Blues," spiking the American folk song that Louis Armstrong popularized in the 1920s with Romani influence and mischievous energy.

- Kind: Talk
- Runtime: 8 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/SilkRoadEnsembleandRhiannonGidde)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/SilkRoadEnsembleandRhiannonGidde?play=1)