Abigail Washburn May 24, 2011

The dazzling Nashville-based American clawhammer banjo player live at Band on the Wall.

If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one’s model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before. To put it another way, she changes what seems possible. Touring on the back of her acclaimed new album City of Refuge, join us at Band on the Wall for what promises to be a wonderful night of gorgeous music.

"Appalacia and folk-pop, with tinges of Asia and Bruce Springsteen"
New York Times

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