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Abigail Washburn never set out to be a songwriter or a recording artist. Five years ago when she found herself on stage in a smoke-filled Beijing club playing her banjo and singing old-time Appalachian mountain music in Chinese to a packed house, she was as surprised as anyone. “A daring, definite talent, whose feel for the folk idiom results in moving material. Check our available Abigail Washburn concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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5.0 (based on 9 reviews)

In a word, Abigail Washburn's City of Refuge shines. It is a folk-pastiche that draws on all of Washburn's past successes and crafts them together into a lovely and sometimes mysterious work of art. The album achieves this success, I think, by maintaining the balance that Washburn has achieved on those previous releases between traditional old-time clawhammer banjo playing and a progressive blending of American and Chinese cultural folk styles...
- www.americansongwriter.com
There's a tune on Abigail Washburn's debut that I've kept returning to since I first heard it. Called "Backstep Cindy / Purple Bamboo", it's an old-timey banjo tune that, halfway through, morphs into a traditional Chinese flute piece, arranged in this case for banjo, fiddle and cello. Like the best of Washburn's work, the tune gracefully bridges a gap between the traditions of two different cultures. It's fusion in the truest sense of the word. For Washburn, fusion is a way of life...
- www.popmatters.com
This is Ms Washburn's third solo effort and she really has hit the mark with 11 songs that have a haunting and soulful resonance. She pkays banjo in the old-time style, 'clawhammer', and the result is like a waterfall of banjo notes with a strong rhythmic side...
- www.music-news.com
The third album from the American singer-songwriter and banjoist Abigail Washburn seems inoffensive at first but rewards on repeated listening. The influences present here include gospel, bluegrass and British folk, but her fascination and affinity with Chinese folk music is the most noticeable. Her pick-n-mix approach to various cultures is also reflected in the cover art. The meeting of east and west is what helps Abigail Washburn's new music to stand out from that of her peers...
- www.noripcord.com
A member of all-women banjo and traditional music group Uncle Earl (they call themselves, rather distressingly, the g'Earls), Abigail Washburn is married to the most revered banjo player alive, Béla Fleck. Despite these anchors deep in the Oh Brother! Thou Art Another Bluegrass Player...
- www.bbc.co.uk
So much folk and bluegrass is about evoking a time or a region gone by, but Abigail Washburnâ??s latest examines the lost country of the broken heart. Her past albums pulled pristine Americana and keening Chinese balladry (which Washburn often sang in Mandarin) together. On â??City of Refuge,â? however, the language is English and her sounds and longings are personal...
- latimesblogs.latimes.com
Clued-in folk fans know this Nashville banjo whiz from her old band Uncle Earl (or perhaps from her marriage to bluegrass renegade Béla Fleck). Washburn's new solo disc deserves a wider audience. Produced by Decemberists collaborator Tucker Martine, City of Refuge frames Washburn's smoky-sexy vocals with lush string-band arrangements that make the occasional touch of Chinese zither seem natural. Think Norah Jones meets Nickel Creek.
- ew.com
Abigail Washburn may have married the country's foremost banjo star in 2009, but don't call her Mrs. Béla Fleck. Having spent the past half-decade dividing her attention between the Sparrow Quartet and Uncle Earl, she steps out on her own with City of Refuge, her second solo album and finest effort to date. City of Refuge rolls a number of rustic traditions into its eleven tracks, which celebrate the roots of folk and bluegrass without sacrificing Washburn's crossover appeal...
- www.pastemagazine.com
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