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Five Reasons Why Globalization Rocks
The world is getting smaller. We're increasingly more connected to folks around the world and have broader access to other cultures' news and arts than ever before. We at Paste are continually excited as global collaborations in the vein of Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mombazo's Graceland seem to be springing up every day. Some are made possible by the ease of modern travel, others by the infinite potential for exploration in the internet's music library and the growing bandwidth that allows musicians to telecommute across continents, laying down synth in Brooklyn and drumbeats in Bangkok. Here's a list that... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayAbigail Washburn & The Shanghai Restoration Project: Afterquake
Although the earthquake that ravaged China’s Sichuan province displaced more than five million people... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsClassic Paste: The Best of Issues 16-18 (June - November 2005)
(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)Next week, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste couldn't yet support a full staff. Back then, we were in our old... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayAbigail Washburn preps benefit album Afterquake
Abigail Washburn has teamed up with Shanghai Restoration Project (Dave Liang's Shanghai jazz/hip hop creation) to record a benefit album for relocated children in China's Sichuan province. Afterquake blends the pioneering sounds of Shanghai Restoration Project with Washburn's folk and the voices of local children. It will be released on May 12, the anniversary of the tragic Sichuan Earthquake.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAbigail Washburn tour diary - 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... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryAbigail Washburn tour diary - The Ambassador, a Famous Opera Singer, Hot Dogs and the Great Hall of the People
Ambassador Randt and his wife have welcomed me into their home four years in a row to play for them and 80 of their closest friends. This time with the Sparrow 3 was no exception. The guests filter in thru the courtyard and into the “venue,” which is the long living room overlooking the courtyard and the dining room with a big impressionist painting of W Jr. and steaming handmade hotdogs waiting for the conclusion of our show to get munched up.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryAbigail Washburn tour diary - Regina to China and Somewhere in the Middle
* Note: "Regina" is pronounced "rah-gina." The town slogan is “Regina rhymes with fun.” We started at 4 a.m. yesterday from the Ramada in Regina, Canada. First layover in Minneapolis for eight hours, then Tokyo, then Beijing. Just arrived in our Beijing digs. Sitting on a high floor of Oakwood Apartments near Beijing’s third ring road at the airport expressway exit. The view out the window is of other newly built residential towers just like this one, and a neon-bannered restaurant of food in the Xiamen style that the receptionists says is “hai keyi” (translation: "it’s ok") with a smirk... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryBonnaroo 2008 - Day 3
Above: Donovan FrankenreiterPhotos by Rob Inderrieden... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsCatching Up With... Abigail Washburn
Paste covered one of Abigail Washburn’s early trips to China back in 2005, where she helped introduce the banjo to the Middle Kingdom. She’s been busy since, first with all-female Americana act Uncle Earl, and most recently with the debut from The Sparrow Quartet—her collaboration with... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesAbigail Washburn announces new album, extensive tour
Folk songstress and banjo master Abigail Washburn will embark on a 100+ date North American tour this week, in support of her new album to be released next month. Washburn’s sophomore record, Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet, will be released May 20 on Nettwerk Records. The album was composed and arranged by the Sparrow Quartet, comprised of Washburn, Bela Fleck (banjo), Ben Sollee (cello) and Casey Driessen. Fleck also produced the record, which Washburn described as an effort to “intentionally create art that is more than what I ever thought I was capable of.” Washburn visited China for the... read more
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