TKA Artists and Special Projects - Flipbook - Page 7
“THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BANJO.”
- Paste Magazine
BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN have a musical partnership like no other.
Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy® Award winner who has taken the instrument
across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn is a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized the instrument by combining it with Far
East culture and sounds. On stage, Fleck & Washburn perform pieces from their
Grammy®-winning self-titled debut (Rounder 2014) as well as their newest
record, Echo in the Valley (Rounder 2017). With one eye on using the banjo to
showcase America’s rich heritage and the other pulling the noble instrument
from its most familiar arena into new and unique realms, Béla & Abigail meet in
the mean, head-on, to present music that feels wildly innovative and familiar at
the same time. Whether at home, on stage or on record, their deep bond,
combined with the way their distinct musical personalities and banjo styles
interact, makes theirs a picking partnership unlike any other on the planet.