Voice | Abigail Washburn | All Levels | Period 1 | Week 2 (July 13-18, 2025)
How do you bring your voice into a group? During the week we’ll explore our voices through exercises, stretching into new vocal abilities and working on such skills as listening, expanding our creativity and improvising collectively. We’ll both compose as a big group and break into smaller groups to explore how we can compose collectively. This class will involve 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.