Tickets were sold out for Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn’s joint banjo performance this past Tuesday evening—and rightfully so.
The husband and wife duo began their tour across the U.S. in the hopes of keeping their family together after their son, Juno, was born in 2013. As Fleck mentions on his touring website, “We decided that the best way to stay together more would be to play together more.”
The couple’s connection through music manifested itself beautifully in Tuesday night’s performance. Both of them have very unique styles of playing banjo—Fleck described his style as being bluegrass oriented, and Washburn’s as being old timer—yet they were able to blend them together to create extremely alluring