Abigail Washburn

Activist, Artist, Global soul, Musician, Performer

Abigail Washburn is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, and clawhammer banjo-player based in Nashville, TN. Her musical projects range from string band Uncle Earl (with Kristin Andreassen, KC Groves, and Rayna Gellert), to her bilingual release Song of the Traveling Daughter and City of Refuge (with Kai Welch), to the mind­-bending “chamber roots” sound of the Sparrow Quartet (with Bela Fleck, Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee), and her banjo-zither collaboration with guzheng virtuoso Wu Fei which blends traditional folk tunes from the US and China. Washburn has written and released several albums as a duo with her husband, Béla Fleck, the first of which won a 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. She is also a mother, spending most of her time caring for her two children, Juno and Theodore. Abigail folds in creative writing, banjo, Chinese-soap-opera-watching and flat-footing in between school pick ups, dinner prep and homework management. www.abigailwashburn.com

We live in a multiverse, our every moment exists in a constellation of ancestry, past-present-future. Music is a powerful way for me to experience, channel and manifest life-giving beauty cross-dimensionally.