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Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1977) 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 , experimental group The Wu Force, [ 2 ] and as a duo with her husband Béla Fleck .
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn is the first album for Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn as a duo. It won the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. Track listing. No. Title
A native of New York City, Fleck was named after the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Austrian composer Anton Webern, and the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. [4] He was drawn to the banjo at a young age when he heard Earl Scruggs play the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies television show [5] and when he heard "Dueling Banjos" by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell on the radio.
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Sparrow Quartet in Asheville, North Carolina, 2008. The Sparrow Quartet is an American acoustic music group that formed in 2005. Its members include Abigail Washburn (banjo and vocals), Béla Fleck (), Casey Driessen (), and Ben Sollee ().
This is the discography of the Grammy-winning banjoist Béla Fleck which consists of 25 studio albums (15 solo, two with Tasty Licks, three with Spectrum, two with Sparrow Quartet, three with Abigail Washburn), 13 collaboration albums, one live album, three music videos, 22 singles (16 as lead artist and six as featured artist), and 76 other appearances.
Flight of the Cosmic Hippo is the second album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1991. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] It reached number 1 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. [ 9 ] The album title came from an audience member who suggested "Flight of the Codeine Hippo"; the band changed "codeine" to "cosmic".
Eventually, Abigail (Alisha Weir) reveals that her father is Kristof Lazar, an infamous crime lord with seeming infinite resources who is far more likely to hunt down and kill the mercenaries than ...