ABBY THE SPOON LADY & CHRIS RODRIGUES
Abby the Spoon Lady tiene las cucharas como forma de interpretar la percusión , en los Estados Unidos, ha sido una artista callejera durante más de una década. Abby estudió percusión y música del folklore de los Estados Unidos mientras viajaba por los diferentes estados de la Unión , a pie y en tren. Ahora, se le considera una artista callejera que ha conseguido hacerse con cierto renombre internacional, acostumbra a tocar con algunos de los mejores artistas locales y visitantes de Asheville en festivales, lugares diversos, sin abandonar sus orígenes en las aceras . Además de encontrarla en varios filmes de terror y cortometrajes, se pueden ver entrevistas con Abby en documentales como Nashville 2012, y también en Buskin ’Blues, sobre la escena en la calle de con carácter mundial en Asheville, Carolina del Norte. Actualmente es Presidenta del Colectivo de Buskers de Asheville.
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Abby the Spoon Lady (born October 29, 1981 in Wichita, Kansas), born Abby Roach, is an American musician, radio personality,and free speech activist. Her music focuses on the American roots genre. She tours with one man band Chris Rodrigues.
History
Abby 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, North Carolina, was completely an accident and that she took the wrong trainToday she hosts storytelling events where she discusses the lifestyle of the American hobo. She spent a good amount of her time traveling recording the stories, interviews and songs of other American travelers.
Abby 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, North Carolina. Today she records buskers through a project called Busker Broadcast, and records interviews and songs of travelers passing through Asheville.
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.
Radio
Abby the Spoon Lady hosts a radio show on WSFM-LP in Asheville, North Carolina called Busker Broadcast. The show centers around street performance and public space law.
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
Chris Rodrigues is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and busker from Asheville North Carolina. He has played across the country in several bands throughout his early teens until the age of 23, when he started busking. Chris is a traveling musician playing indoor venues, festivals, churches and busking in the street. He plays the resophonic guitar, blows the harmonica, stomps on a suitcase with his right foot, taps on a license plate with his left foot and sings his takes on traditional songs as well as his own written material witch can be heard on several prime time television shows. He hopes to take traditional songs of american heritage and play them in his own new way in hopes of keeping alive these songs that have been played for years.
Data de publicació: 29 de jul. 2018
This is a song that we have been working with for a while. It's a bit catchy. These old gospel songs are a lot of fun to play with! Do you have a favorite gospel song? We'd like to hear about it below. We are always looking for great content!
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https://suitcaseandspoons.bandcamp.com/
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ABBY THE SPOON LADY
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CHRIS RODRIGUES
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