Savannah Music Festival | March 22-April 7, 2012

SMF APPEARANCES

• NOON30: ABIGAIL WASHBURN
  April 5, 2012 12:30 PM
  Charles H. Morris Center
  

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Sponsored by AUDI HILTON HEAD
Sponsored in part by Friends of the Savannah Music Festival
Additional support by Hussey, Gay, Bell & DeYoung, Inc.

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. As a singer, songwriter, and clawhammer banjo player every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, she pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody's ever heard before. Audiences who heard her at SMF 2007 with the acclaimed all-female, old-time stringband Uncle Earl and again in 2009 with the Sparrow Quartet (Béla Fleck, Casey Dreissen and Ben Sollee) are in for a different treat this time, as Abby's sound has continued to evolve.

"Ms. Washburn's enigmatic songs mingle Appalachia and folk-pop, with tinges of Asia and Bruce Springsteen. Eventually, the route leads home: to a mountain gospel hymn."
-The New York Times