Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse presents Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704-1104 USA
8:00 PM, Friday, December 14, 2018

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[8:02 PM lights down, introduction by ?Tom; waiting for the duo…]
[8:05 PM Entrance of Béla & Abigail]

1. [8:06 PM] Railroad
2. [8:10 PM] ? (medley of unidentified banjo instrumentals)
3. [8:22 PM] If I Could Talk to a Younger Me
   [Béla & Abigail swap instruments]
4. [8:28 PM] Over the Divide
   [Béla talks about their instruments, swaps to cello banjo; Abigail swaps to fretless banjo]
5. [8:32 PM] Little Birdie
6. [8:40 PM] Come All Ye Coal Miners
   [Béla moves to the stool at side stage to play the ukelele banjo]
7. [8:43 PM] ? (unidentified solo instrumental from Béla)
   [Béla swaps back to the black banjo that he started the set on; Abigail up front to sing (without a banjo)]
8. [8:52 PM] My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
   [set ends 8:58 PM]

[9:24 PM lights down, waiting, Béla & Abigail out after a minute or so; Béla starts on cello banjo]

1. [9:26 PM] Don't Let It Bring You Down
   [Béla hands the cello banjo to Abby; swaps to another instrument]
2. [9:30 PM] Bloomin' Rose
   [Béla tells a tall one about how he met Abby via (fake online site)]
3. [9:44 PM] Song of the Traveling Daughter
   [multiple banjo swaps as they figure out what tune will be played next]
4. [9:50 PM] (unidentified tune)
   [Abby talks about singing with the SF Symphony; takes off her banjo for the next one]
5. [9:59 PM] And Am I Born to Die
6. [10:04 PM] (Béla solo segment: multiple tunes, including Chopin's Minute Waltz)
   [10:11 PM ukulele banjo raffle – missed winning it by that much]
   [Abby clogging for the last piece (no banjo for her!)]
7. [10:16 PM] Take Me to Harlan
   [set ends 10:21 PM
   
   Encore
8. [10:22 PM] Sing About It
9. [10:27 PM] Hear it Ring
   [show ends 10:31 PM]

• Béla Fleck: banjo, cello banjo, ukulele banjo, vox;
• Abigail Washburn: banjo, cello banjo, fretless banjo, body percussion, vox.

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Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2018 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2018 event list! ☸ On to the next event!