SFJAZZ presents Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
2014-11-29
Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA
7:30 PM, Late Show, Saturday, November 29, 2014

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[7:34 PM lights down, announcements from Randall Kline]

1. [7:39 PM] Railroad
2. [7:45 PM] Banjo Pickin' Girl
3. [7:53 PM] Banjo Banjo
   [Béla swaps to a teensy banjo; Abigail on a big-headed one]
4. [7:59 PM] Ride to U
   [Béla swaps to one of the alternate medium banjos; Abigail on a small-headed one]
5. [8:05 PM] Little Birdie
   [back to normal banjos…]
6. [8:11 PM] City of Refuge
7. [8:20 PM] (Béla solo segment)
   [out in front, entirely unamplified]
8. [8:29 PM] Keys to the Kingdom
9. [8:38 PM] Taiyang Chulai (The Sun Rises)
10. [8:41 PM] ? (unidentified medley of old time instrumentals)
    [Abigail swaps to the big banjo for the next one]
11. [8:50 PM] Shotgun Blues
12. [8:56 PM] (Divine Bell practice)
13. [8:57 PM] Divine Bell
14. [9:01 PM] And Am I Born to Die?
15. [9:12 PM] New South Africa
    [set ends 9:19 PM, bows and then both off for a minute or so]
     
    Encore
16. [9:21 PM] His Eye Is on the Sparrow
    [show ends 9:26 PM]

• Béla Fleck: banjo;
• Abigail Washburn: banjo, vox.

Still messing around with updating my old Epic, so tonight's setlist was written on paper. How quaint! Traffic was amazingly light both directions tonight, and we made each half of our trip in record time. Thanks and praises due to Ganesha, remover of obstacles! The downside of this happy result is that it meant we had a lot of time to kill before the show – nearly an hour – but it wasn't that hard to do, and the time-shifting meant that we avoided walking in any of tonight's downpours. Yay! Praises and thanks to Sitātapatrā who holds a cosmic umbrella over our heads!

Our seats for tonight were up in the balcony – trying to save a dime again! – but the sound in Miner is so good that it didn't matter at all; even during the unamplified acoustic tunes they did.

Who would have thought that a banjo duo could be so interesting, or that it's performance would require duo many banjos? I'm guessing that Bella doesn't even think about how much the freight charges are gonna be when he goes on tour, cuz he certainly didn't pack light for this one!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2014 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2014 event list! ☸ On to the next event!