$39.00–$59.00
@Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Virginia G. Piper Theater 7380 E. 2nd St. Scottsdale, AZ 85251
To purchase tickets, call 480.499.8587 or visit scottsdaleperformingarts.org.
Circle of Friends members who give $500+ annually receive 10% off concert tickets.
In the abstract, a banjo duo might seem like a musical concept beset by limitations. But when the banjo players cast in those roles are Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn—he with the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots, she with the earthy sophistication of a postmodern, old-time singer-songwriter—it’s a different matter entirely. There’s no denying that theirs is a one-of-a-kind pairing, with one-of-a-kind possibilities.
For more than 30 years, banjoist Béla Fleck . . . one of the world’s most accommodating virtuosos . . . has been pushing the boundaries of his instrument.
—New York Times
If American old-time music is about adopting earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making, Washburn has proven herself a challenge to that tradition.
—National Public Radio