Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring

West is west and east is east but The banjo player is breaking both boundaries and borders with her unique blend of a very western music form and very eastern lyricsBanjo player Abigail Washburn is wrapping up her set at BB King's Bar and Grill, a music lounge off Times Square in New York. Typically, for a folk singer, she concludes the show with a singalong. Less typically, the singalong is in Chinese. "This tune is in an ethnic dialect, but don't let that worry you," she says. "If it helps, r...

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