"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 3/11/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Abigail Washburn is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 12 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Abigail Washburn is rated as a superb live performer, with impressive shows overall. Abigail Washburn concert reviews describe live shows and performances as dynamic and bluesy.
Abigail Washburn never set out to be a songwriter or a recording artist. Five years ago when she found herself on stage in a smoke-filled Beijing club playing her banjo and singing old-time Appalachian mountain music in Chinese to a packed house, she was as surprised as anyone.
HAS PERFORMED with
The Sparrow Quartet, Bela Fleck
CRITIC concert REVIEWS
KDHX (USA)
November 2, 2017
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Such is the experience of watching Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck serenade the evening with their banjos.
Washburn and her husband Bela Fleck are banjo royalty – he redefined bluegrass with the Flecktones she fused the sounds of Appalachia with Chinese folk – but this year is the first the couple have recorded together.
"I sing because I'm happy," sang Abigail Washburn toward the end of her show with fellow banjo picker (not to mention, husband) Bela Fleck in the closing number of the night "His Eye is on the Sparrow."
Washburn had a lot of reason to be on this night in a beautiful setting at Harvard University. The two hel
Vocalist (and songwriter) Mike Montali also continues to charm with a voice that takes in the quivering vulnerability of Robin Wilson, the keening alto of Neil Young and the bluesy tint of Chris Robinson.