Abby the Spoon Lady
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Abby Roach |
| Born | 29 October 1981 Wichita, Kansas, United States |
| Origin | Wichita, Kansas, United States |
| Genres | American folk, American roots |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, free speech activist, percussionist, storyteller |
| Instrument(s) | spoons |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Website | www |
Abby the Spoon Lady (born October 29, 1981 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American musician and free speech activist. Her music focuses on the American roots genre. As of 2016, she tours with a 3-piece band called the Fly By Night Rounders consisting of Chris Rodrigues (guitar) and Vaden Landers (banjo). [1] [2]
History
Abby the Spoon Lady first started street performing and busking as a means to make money traveling across the United States, primarily hopping freight trains. She taught herself to play the spoons and traveled all over the United States by hitchhiking and railroad. She states that landing in Asheville, NC was completely an accident and that she took the wrong train. [3] Today she hosts storytelling events where she discusses the lifestyle of the American hobo.[4] She spent a good amount of her time traveling recording the stories, interviews and songs of other American travelers. [5]
Abby the Spoon Lady is an advocate for street performance and free speech. In 2014 she was instrumental in developing a group called the Asheville Buskers Collective which advocates for street performance within the city of Asheville, NC.[6][7][8][9] Today she records buskers through a project called Busker Broadcast, and records interviews and songs of travelers passing through [Asheville, NC].[10]
In 2012 she was filmed in the horror film Jug Face playing spoons, and in 2015 she was filmed for Buskin' Blues, a documentary about the street performance scene in [Asheville, NC].[11]
Genre
Her repertoire consists of a mix of Americana, early jazz, ragtime for string instruments, country blues, jug band, Western swing, Vaudeville, and Appalachian folk.
Influences
Musicians that have influenced her include Artis the Spoonman, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies, Sleepy John Estes, Fats Waller, and Emmett Miller
References
- ^ http://mountainx.com/blogwire/abby-the-spoon-lady-performs-at-the-mothlight-on-sunday-feb-12th/
- ^ http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2017/01/09/asheville-buskers-left-cold/95996398/
- ^ Marla Hardee Milling (2015). Only in Asheville: An Eclectic History. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 108–110.
- ^ https://mountainx.com/blogwire/abby-the-spoon-lady-shares-stories-and-music-at-trade-and-lore-coffee-house-july-14/
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/q/segment/11385452
- ^ https://mountainx.com/news/buskers-to-city-dont-put-art-in-a-box/
- ^ http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/04/28/buskers-jostle-new-laws/26532669/
- ^ https://mountainx.com/arts/asheville-buskers-collective-meets-to-discuss-downtown-busking-issues/
- ^ http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/08/25/buskers-halt-city-pilot-program/32292971/
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/q/segment/11385452
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4066878/
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