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  Wednesday 14 March 2012 9.30pm Booking No. 1 $32/$26 Phoenix Public House Doors Open: 9.00pm ABIGAIL WASHBURN with KAI WELCH If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one's model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She-a singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based claw hammer banjo player-is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody's ever heard before. Abigail is well known from her time in the reputation building line up of Uncle Earl, where along with Rayna Gellert they fronted one of the best of new wave of young American bands getting back into the tradition in a very contemporary way. City of Refuge, with producer Tucker Martine (the Decemberists, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens), is her third album and melds the forces of Washburn's classic songwriting and old-time storytelling aesthetic with collaborator Kai Welch's indie rock influence & classical training, resulting in a collection of beautifully enigmatic songs. Abigail will perform songs from City of Refuge as well as a fresh and magnetic array of original & traditional songs alongside songwriting collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Kai Welch (new solo release Send It Down now available). > Find out more: Website | Facebook | YouTube CAT and CLINT Cat Moser and Clint Dylan O'Gradey are two young musicians who have been involved in several rootsy Brunswick bands over a number of years and started performing as a duo in early 2009. They play their own brand of old-timey blues music, featuring vocals, fiddle, banjos, slide banjo, guitar and banjo ukulele. Their music is the result of a very close musical relationship and years of knowledge in their craft. The music is woven with harmonies, lively fiddle and banjo tunes, soulful blues and folk. They stay true to the traditions of old-timey and early blues music and bring it into this era with their own original flavour. > Find out more: MySpace
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