Voice | Abigail Washburn | All Levels | Period 2 | Week 2 (July 13-18, 2025)
What is your voice? In this class you’ll work on getting more comfortable with your own voice and bringing that voice into a song. We’ll explore what is it inside of us that falls in love with a song? How does our voice embody that love and make the song its own? What tools can we use to nod to the source of the song while bringing it into our vocal and expressive home? In the process we’ll embrace a handful of songs, including, as the week goes on, songs you bring to the class or to a small group, weaving our ideas together. Lots of singing!
About the Instructor
If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one’s model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She — a singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player — is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. Abigail pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before.