Abigail Washburn
Abigail Washburn
Abigail Washburnis an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a soloist, as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl and Sparrow Quartet, experimental group The Wu Force, and as a duo with her husband Béla Fleck...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBanjo Player
Date of Birth10 November 1977
CountryUnited States of America
Abigail Washburn quotes about
needs lawyer china
U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.
beauty common drive human louder music needs search share sure
My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
music
You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
call music obsession played
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
girl pretty-girl play
I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
chinese novelty chinese-music
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,
player chinese singing
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
girl chinese banjos
I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
ideas creative together
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
real band awesomeness
Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
believe power-of-music
I really believe in the power of music.
china make-sense western
I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.
girl daughter heart
Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.