The banjo is one of the most American of instruments, a staple of bluegrass and folk. Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn take the banjo to places it’s never been before - Los Angeles Times ...

TED Fellow Abigail Washburn wanted to be a lawyer working on U.S.-China relations — until she picked up a banjo. In this TEDTalk, she tells a moving story of the remarkable connections she's ...

Singer-songwriter Abigail Washburn's debut album, Song of the Traveling Daughter, shows off her considerable talents playing the banjo. The record also features Bela Fleck, Ryan Hoyle of ...

It took 40 years to get Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn to the Skaneateles Festival, said Aaron Wunsch, co-artistic director, as he introduced the banjo/song writer duo. For the capacity crowd at ...

Banjo duo Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn 07:31. Charles Osgood reports. Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn are partners on stage and off -- husband and wife, entwined in life's ultimate duet.

For over a decade Abigail Washburn, a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player, knew she wanted to help improve Chinese-American relations. She just never thought she'd be doing it through song.

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, the world's pre-eminent banjo players, perform twice in New Jersey this month. The husband-wife duo stop at SOPAC April 7 and Princeton University April 13. "This ...

Washburn, 41, found the banjo at age 21 but didn’t become a full-time musician until a decade later, when a record company offered her a deal seemingly out of the blue.

Abigail Washburn Clogs, Bela Fleck Riffs on the Banjo in ‘Take Me to Harlan’ Video. Folk duo enlists dance troupe Pilobolus to summon old-world Appalachian rhythm . By Robert Crawford.

It took time for Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn to harmoniously fit his three-finger style of banjo playing with her clawhammer technique. That accounted for part of the challenge of playing ...

Washburn almost left the U.S. for China, where she'd planned to spend the rest of her days practicing law. As luck would have it, though, her growing fascination with learning the banjo led her to ...

Husband and wife Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn are both banjo-music greats in their own right. Fleck is the innovator, experimenter, the rock star and the technical master whose name is ...