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Tag: Abigail Washburn
Unexpected encounter of the banjo kind
Our intrepid Bluegrass Today IT Director, Eric Tapp, snapped this photo at an Interstate rest area near Savannah, GA. Abigail Washburn is prominently pictured in an advertisement for the Savannah Music Festival which kicks off later this month. Not sure how Abby feels about being [...]
The Mountain Music Project available on CD/DVD
We’ve posted several times about The Mountain Music Project, a documentary film which covers a musical journey of discovery from Appalachia to Nepal. The project follows a pair of Virginia pickers, Tara Lindhart and Danny Knicely, as they travel through the mountains of Nepal seeking and [...]
Abigail Washburn in China
Abigail Washburn spent November and December of 2011 in China, touring along the ancient Silk Road which once served as a trade route between China and the West. The tour was in the form of a cultural exchange, funded by the US Embassy and the [...]
Lake Eden Arts Festival, Fall 2011
Last weekend’s LEAF (Lake Eden Arts Festival), in Black Mountain, NC, was ushered in by a fairly brutal cold front, which meant steady winds and frigid temps, but fortunately, sunny skies. Although this isn’t a specifically bluegrass festival, it is an event that covers a [...]
Town Mountain videos online
Town Mountain recorded a trio of live, in-studio videos during the Knoxville Rhythm N Blooms festival this past Spring. These videos, showcasing songs from their Steady Operator CD, are now available in HD at Live and Breathing. Here’s a look at one of the clips, a [...]
Abigail Washburn – Nobody’s Fault but Mine
While shooting a music video for the title track of her City Of Refuge CD, Abigail Washburn also shot a solo live video for Nobody’s Fault But Mine, a Blind Willie Johnson song she recorded for her Song Of The Traveling Daughter album. It’s a [...]
Abigail Washburn at the Tiny Desk
Abigail Washburn stopped by the NPR Music office recently to shoot a video for the network’s Tiny Desk Concert series, so named for being set behind the desk of Bob Boilen, host of their All Songs Considered program. She and her talented band performed selections [...]
Backstage interviews from Mountain Stage
Mountain Stage, the long-running live concert program from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, has added a new feature on their NPR.org web site. They now shoot backstage interviews with show guests, and post them on the individual show pages at NPR. Recent featured artists include Nashville [...]
City of Refuge from Abigail Washburn
Foreign Children Records is scheduled to release the next album from celebrated banjoist and singer/songwriter Abigail Washburn on August 31. City of Refuge was produced Tucker Martine, renowned for his work with The Decemeberists and other edgy pop, rock and world music artists. Assisting in [...]
Rounder Records Celebrates 40 Years
Monday night fans and musicians filled the Grand Ole Opry house in Nashville to help Rounder Records celebrate forty years in the record business. I really feel like we did help them, because the show was not only a concert, but a television taping. That [...]
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