As part of
London jazz festival, Rhiannon Giddens performed in the chapel at Wormwood Scrubs
prison – supported by a choir of inmates
Fifty years after Johnny Cash gave the most famous prison concerts of all time at Folsom and San Quentin, the
British penal system finally has an equivalent.
On Thursday night, the Grammy-winning African
American folk singer Rhiannon Giddens delivered an intense and emotionally charged concert at HMP Wormwood Scrubs before an audience of both inmates and members of the general public who had bought tickets as part of the London jazz festival.