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Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn at Oshman Family Jcc In Palo Alto
Courtesy of Michael Morales | Posted on January 12, 2017
Where
Oshman Family Jcc In Palo Alto
3921 Fabian Way
Palo Alto, CA
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When
Thu, March 23, 2017
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Bela Fleck
banjoAbout
Sure, in the abstract, a banjo duo might seem like a musical concept beset by limitations. But when the banjo players cast in those roles are Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn—she with the earthy sophistication of a postmodern, old-time singer-songwriter; he with the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots— it’s a different matter entirely. There’s no denying that theirs is a one-of-a-kind pairing, with one-of-a-kind possibilities.
Fleck and Washburn have collaborated in the past, most visibly in their Sparrow Quartet with Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee...