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
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.
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.
banjo child connect deal fell future god pain parents past period playing record time
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
flute girls played tried
I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
music
You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
needs lawyer china
U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.
chinese novelty chinese-music
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,
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!
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.
believe opportunity giving
I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.