Singing | Abigail Washburn | All Levels | Period 1 | Week 2 (July 14-19, 2024)
Throughout her years learning and sharing music, Abigail is personally moved by the way listening deeply shapes her as a musician and composer. In this class we will practice turning on our “big ears” and making sound to manifest personal expression through a connectedness to our collective voice. This class is wide open to ALL people that want to learn and make music.
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.