Abigail Washburn

Abigail Washburn (born in Evanston, Illinois, on 10 November 1977) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a soloist, as well as with old-time band Uncle Earl, as Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet, in the experimental group The Wu Force, and as the duos Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (with her husband Béla Fleck) and Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn. Washburn says she never set out to be a songwriter or a recording artist.