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Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn 2018-19 UMS LEARNING GUIDE Echo in the Valley Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn BE PRESENT BE PRESENT 1 Table of Contents 04 05 06 16 ATTEND THE DETAILS LEARN CONNECT 07 Why? 17 Being an Audience Member 09 Artist 20 Arts Online 11 Art Form 21 Recommended Reading 13 Performance 23 Writing About Live Performance with Your Students 26 About UMS 38 Credits and Sponsors February 7 February UMS SCHOOL DAY PERFORMANCE Echo in the Valley Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Thursday, February 7 // 11 am Hill Auditorium BE PRESENT 3 Attend Coming to your email inbox! Map and Driving Directions Logistical Details (drop-off/pick-up locations) Venue Information 734.764.2538 ——— UMS.ORG BE PRESENT 4 The Details CELL PHONES We ask that all audience members turn off their cell phones during the performance. ACCESSIBILITY We aim to maximize accessibility at our performances, and below are details regarding this performance’s points of accessibility. If you have further questions, e-mail [email protected] or call 734.615.0122. PARKING There is handicapped parking very close to the Power Center on Fletcher Street and in the parking structure behind the Power Center on Palmer Drive. The first three levels of the Palmer Drive structure have 5 handicapped parking spaces on each level next to each elevator. There are a total of 15 handicapped parking spaces in the garage. VENUE ADDRESS Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY Courtesy wheelchairs are available for audience members. Hill Auditorium is EMERGENCY CONTACT NUMBER wheelchair accessible and has 12 seats for audience members with special needs. 734.764.2538 BATHROOMS ADA ARRIVAL TIME ADA-compliant toilets are available in the green room (east corner) of the Hill Between 10:30-10:50am Auditorium for both men and women. TICKETS ENTRY We do not use paper tickets for School Day Performances. We hold school The front doors are not powered; however, there will be an usher at that door reservations at the door and seat groups upon arrival. opening it for all patrons. There is a ramp entrance on the west side of the auditorium. FOOD No food (including school lunches), drinks, or chewing gum are allowed in the theater. BE PRESENT 5 Learn Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn – Banjo 734.764.2538 ——— UMS.ORG BE PRESENT 6 LEARN Why? UMS EDUCATION ARTISTSIC STATEMENT Echo in the Valley is the follow-up to the acclaimed, self-titled debut that earned Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn a 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. This time around, their mission was to take their double- banjo combination of three-finger and clawhammer styles to the next level. Their rules for the recording: all sounds must be created by the two of them, the only instruments used were banjos (they have seven between them, ranging from a ukulele to an upright bass banjo), and they had to be able to perform every recorded song live. Echo in the Valley connects us to our past through wild re-imaginings of traditional Appalachian tunes, with original songs inspired by a man who ferried Syrian refugees to safety and by Native American voices lamenting a distancing from nature. UMS invites audiences to bask in the colorful, soulful, and unexpected sounds of the banjo duo and partake in the musical stories they tell. We hope that Béla’s and Abigail’s virtuosity and soulfulness will inspire The banjo is an often-misunderstood instrument. While the circular- students to view the banjo in a new light — as an instrument bursting bodied, guitar-like instrument is most often associated with folk music with color, depth, and character. of the American South, bluegrass, and the Beverly Hillbillies, the banjo’s roots originated with slaves from Africa who brought their music and instruments to the Americas. The banjo has since evolved to find a place in many styles of music, from bluegrass to jazz, in an effort led by several virtuosos of the instrument. Throughout their musical careers, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, a husband-and-wife team, have each pushed the instrument’s technical abilities into new territory and placed the banjo in unexpected contexts. BE PRESENT 7 LEARN Why? ONLINE: CONNECTING TO THE PERFORMANCE Listen to Béla Fleck’s and Abigail Washburn’s self-titled debut album on Spotify. BE PRESENT 8 LEARN Artist BÉLA FLECK AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN: FIVE THINGS TO KNOW 01 Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn met at a square dance and began playing music together over a decade ago, marrying shortly thereafter. Fleck had long been interested in the banjo, but Washburn’s path to a music career was more roundabout: a record deal in the halls of a bluegrass convention in Kentucky changed her trajectory from becoming a lawyer in China to a traveling folk musician. 02 03 Echo in the Valley is the follow-up album to Béla An undisputed virtuoso of the instrument, Béla Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and Abigail’s acclaimed, self-titled debut that and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that earned the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. has taken him all over the world on a range of solo projects and collaborations. Béla Currently, Abigail and Béla are touring the world has collaborated with Chick Corea, the Marcus Roberts Trio, Brooklyn Rider, and the as a “trio” with their little boy, Juno. Nashville Symphony Orchestra, to name a few, on projects ranging from original jazz duos to arrangements of classical music by Bach, Debussy, and Paganini. 04 05 The recipient of multiple Grammy Awards and Abigail Washburn was named a TED fellow and gave a talk at the 2012 TED Convention nominations going back to 1998, Béla Fleck’s in Long Beach about building US-China relations through music. In March 2013, she total Grammy count is 15 Grammys won, with was commissioned by New York Voices and the NY Public Theater to write and debut a 30 nominations. He has been nominated in theatrical work, Post-American Girl, which draws from her 17-year relationship with China more categories than any instrumentalist in and addresses themes of expanding identity, cultural relativism, pilgrimage, the universal Grammy history. appeal of music, and opening the heart enough to fold it all in. Abigail was recently named the first US-China Fellow at Vanderbilt University. BE PRESENT 9 LEARN Artist ONLINE: GETTING TO KNOW BÉLA FLECK AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN In this video, watch Abigail Washburn’s TED talk about In this video, watch and learn about the differences building US-China relations… through banjo. between Béla Fleck’s Three-Finger style and Abigail Washburn’s Clawhammer style of banjo playing, which they combine to create the duo’s unique sound. BE PRESENT 10 LEARN Art Form INSTRUMENTS: THE BANJO FAMILY The banjo is a four-, five-, or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane Two techniques closely associated with the five-string banjo are rolls and stretched over a frame (or cavity) as a resonator, called the head. The body, drones. Rolls are accompaniments of right-hand fingering patterns that or pot, of a modern banjo typically consists of a circular rim generally made of consist of eighth notes that subdivide each measure. Drone notes are usually wood, though metal was also common on older banjos, and a tensioned head, played on the fifth (short) string and fill in around the melody notes. Both of similar to a drum head. The membrane, or head, is circular and typically made these techniques are idiomatic to the banjo in all styles, and their sound is of plastic or animal skin. Most modern banjos also have a metal “tone ring” characteristic of bluegrass. assembly that helps further clarify and project the sound. Modern banjos are typically strung with metal strings. Usually, the fourth string is wound with Bluegrass music, which almost exclusively uses the five-string resonator banjo, is either steel or bronze-phosphor alloy. Some players may string their banjos with played in several common styles. These include “Scruggs” style, named after Earl nylon or gut strings to achieve a mellower, old-time tone. Scruggs; “melodic,” or Keith style, named for Bill Keith; and “three-finger style” with single-string work, also called Reno style after Don Reno. In these styles, the The modern banjo derives from instruments that had been used in the emphasis is on arpeggiated figures played in a continuous eighth-note rhythm, Caribbean since the 17th century by enslaved people taken from West Africa. known as rolls. All of these styles are typically played with fingerpicks. However, the banjo is frequently associated with folk, Irish traditional, and country music. Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African- 4-STRING BANJO – “OLD TIME” American traditional music before becoming popular in the minstrel shows of Four-string banjos are typically used for chordal accompaniment (as in early the 19th century. The banjo, along with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old- jazz), for single-string melody playing (as in Irish traditional music), in “chord time music. It is also very frequently used in traditional jazz. melody” style (a succession of chords in which the highest notes carry the melody), in tremolo style (both on chords and single strings), and a 5-STRING BANJO mixed technique called duo style that combines single-string tremolo and The modern five-string banjo is a variation on the instrument popularized rhythm chords. by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox, Virginia. The fifth string is usually the same gauge as the first, but starts from the fifth fret, three quarters the length of the other strings.
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