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Tim O'Brien and Abigail Washburn
Old Fruitmarket
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If ever there was an argument against fears that today’s roots music melting-pot tends inexorably toward homogeneity, it’s US singer and multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien. Few musicians can ever have had their fingers in so many different traditions and styles – from hardcore bluegrass to Dylan rarities, Irish trad to old-time jazz and way beyond – while so vividly preserving each element’s individual character, even when newly cross-fertilised. His line-up tonight includes the the crème of musicians from Nashville including Bryan Sutton (guitar), Stuart Duncan (fiddle) and Mike Bub (double bass) who will no doubt draw from O’Brien’s 13th solo release, 2010’s highly acclaimed Chicken & Egg.
Singer, songwriter and clawhammer banjo player Abigail Washburn, who brought the groundbreaking bluegrass/chamber/Chinese sound of her Sparrow Quartet to Celtic Connections 2009, is back with something completely different, but no less enticing: a newly wrought alloy of old-time and indie-pop elements, as featured on last August’s City of Refuge album.
Tickets: £16
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