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432 days ago
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet took a minute to stop by the Dell Dome at Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco in August for an interview. Check out your interview here. Also, make sure you check out the latest tour dates to see if Sparrow Quartet will be playing in your area in the coming weeks!
432 days ago
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Hello! After a few days break, we're rested and ready to hit the road again! We are excited to be touring in the Midwest, Northeast and Texas this month. We hope to see you at one of these upcoming shows: Thursday, Sept. 11 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Memorial Hall Saturday, Sept. 13 - River Forest, IL @ Dominican University Performing Arts Center Sunday, Sept. 14 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Monday, Sept. 15 - Minneapolis, MN @ Guthrie Theatre Tuesday, Sept. 16 - Madison, WI @ Barrymore Theater Wednesday, Sept. 17 - Indianapolis, IN - The Music Mill Friday, Sept. 19 - Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark Saturday, Sept. 20 - Hamilton, OH @ Parrish Auditorium Thursday, Sept. 25 - Harrisburg, PA @ Whitaker Center Saturday, Sept. 27 - The Woodlands, TX @ Dosey Doe Sunday, Sept. 28 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival Check out our website for more dates, and stay tuned for news ...
432 days ago
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 The Armpit of Capitalism, Hot Cross Buns, Fear-thee-not Meat, The Chinese Reaction, Self-Perception & The Nation State, Fun Olympics: The Review (PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED) In the original plan for the Sparrow Quartet's 'Olympic Tour' of China we were to play music in Sichuan where the earthquakes hit this past March. I was looking forward to the Sichuan trip because I had lived in Chengdu and care deeply about the people I've known there and generally feel close to Sichuanese culture. I thought the tour would help me understand Sichuan since the earthquakes and would give me a chance to offer music to the reconstruction process. No such luck… re-routed to the chockablock factory towns of Dongguan, Guangzhou and Foshan, otherwise known as the geographic armpit of Chinese capitalism. Hot Cross Buns Despite a previous, very positive, US state department ...
432 days ago
Friday, August 22, 2008 Can't make it to Outside Lands this year? Thanks to AT&T, you can catch the Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck performance Webcast LIVE from Outside Lands on Saturday, August 23th at 1:00pm Pacific time exclusively at attblueroom.com/music. Be sure to check out other live performances during the event and exclusive Outside Lands 2008 archived footage after the show.432 days ago
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet are touring China right now and wanted to share this interview they did for China.com. Click here to check it out. Also, make sure you check out this interview on "The Story." Don't forget that Abigail is blogging from China for Paste Magazine. You can read the latest updates on Paste's website, here, or on the Tales of Abigail link on the band's official website.
