Abigail Washburn
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Abigail Washburn (b. Evanston, Illinois, United States, c. 1979) is 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.
Washburn was born in Evanston, Illinois (near Chicago), and spent her elementary and part of her junior high school years in a suburb of Washington, D.C.. She attended high school in Minnesota, then attended Colorado College. Following this, she spent some time living in China (having first visited that nation in 1996). She then spent three years in Vermont before moving to Nashville, Tennessee.[1]
Her first solo album is entitled Song of the Traveling Daughter. She speaks Mandarin, and the recording includes two songs in that language.
[edit] External links
- Abigail Washburn official site
- Article on Abigail Washburn's close relationship with China
- "Bluegrass Over Beijing", by Ron Gluckman
- Abigail Washburn interview from Popmatters
[edit] Listening
- Audio interview from National Public Radio Morning Edition program
- Audio samples from Song of the Traveling Daughter
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