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  • "SALA USA" for Patagonia Music, Wood Brothers Dates, UK Dates, & More!

    Just over a month ago, before we started out on tour, myself and a collective of musicians Kai Welch & The Shanghai Restoration Project (Dave Liang) w/ Kevin Dailey, Jamie Dick, Rayna Gellert, Brittany Haas, Alana Rocklin & Mrs. Biggers' 2nd grade Julia Green Elementary School class) made a recording for Patagonia Music to raise money for environmental causes near and dear. We recorded SALA USA to raise money for Jane Goddall's China branch of the Roots and Shoots program. After shows, a lot of people ask where they can get a recording of our live performance of Sala - now we have it!

    Thanks to Patagonia's Geoff Stanfield, Christina Speed & Kasey Kersnowski for assembling this mass of music for good... and for taking The Village surfing in Ventura for the first time! See pictures here

    The following "Making of SALA USA" video was taped by Dave Liang and edited by Stephanie Ching.

    Upcoming Shows .. ..
    May 2 Lincoln Theatre w/ The Wood Brothers
    May 3 Visulite Theatre w/ The Wood Brothers
    May 4 The Bijou Theatre w/ The Wood Brothers
    May 5 Orange Peel w/ The Wood Brothers
    May 7 Variety Playhouse w/ The Wood Brothers
    May 20 London Borderline
    May 22 Pleasance Cabaret Bar
    May 23 Leeds the Wardrobe
    May 24 Manchester Band on the Wall
    May 25 Bristol Bonaventure
    June 9-12 Bonnaroo
    June 16-19 Telluride
    July 7 Pier Six w/ Flecktones and Carolina Chocolate Drops
    July 9 Newport Yachting Center w/ Flecktones
    July 10 Filene Center w/ Flecktones and Carolina Chocolate Drops
    July 22 Southern Fried Festival
    July 23 SummerTyne Festival
    July 29 WOMAD
    July 30-31 Cambridge Folk Festival

    5:16 PM

  • Co-Bill with Wood Brothers, New Chicago Date Added & Fun From the road!

    O, the road, the glorious road!
    After a dozen shows all across OK, TX, AZ and CA...long drives through the
    American SW, countless truck stops, sleepless nights and incredible
    gatherings with local friends new and old this traveling band (Kai Welch,
    Jamie Dick, Jon Estes, Rayna Gellert and Cain Hogsed) has come to call
    itself The Village... If you live in OR, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago come
    join The Village! If you can't join us in person, keep in touch on Facebook
    and Twitter where we're regularly posting videos & pics from the road.

    - Abigail

    The Village


    Check it out

    Mason Jar Music
    "Nobody's Fault But Mine"


    Eat Your Wheaties Tour
    Episode 1


    Abby's Store!


    "Bright Morning Stars" on Army Wives
    One of the songs from the new record was recently played on Army Wives Episode 4, "On Behalf of a Grateful Nation"!
    Watch it here.

    Abigail on NPR's World Cafe!

    Tune in to your local NPR station on April 5! Click above to find your local station.

    Touring with
    The Wood Brothers!

    From May 2-7 we'll be out on the road with none other than the fabulous Wood Brothers! Hope to see you there!

    4:30 PM

  • SXSW & West Coast Tour!

    Hello all!

    First of all we gotta thank everyone who made our tour of Colorado a SUBLIME
    experience. Luckily we had our good friend (& Jared's brother) filmmaker
    Evan Engel, in tow with his camera and killer editing skills to share the
    journey with you. Currently we have 4 City of Refuge tour videos up on
    Facebook & YouTube with 5 or 6 more to come...check out the latest.

    And the action doesn't stop~ Kai, Jamie and I are hitting the
    road again, this time with soulful "village" veteran, Rayna "Raimaker"
    Gellert on fiddle and newcomer to the fold John "Esticulos" Estes on bass
    and pedal steel. We'll be out on a 5 week epic tour starting with SXSW in
    Austin, TX, making our way across the deserts of the SW, on up the coast
    from southern CA to the northern redwoods all the way up to Seattle before
    we shoot across to the midwest and make our way home through the heartland.

    Come see a show and hang with us!

    - Abigail


    Other News:

    Right By Her Roots Just Released!

    My dear friend and author actually found me interesting enough to write me
    into the pages of her book along with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Mary
    Gauthier, and Elizabeth Cook!

    It's an absolute honor to be thrown in a pile with these amazing ladies.
    Speaking of, I got play a night at Music City Roots with Mary & Elizabeth
    and you can see Elizabeth, Jewly and I clog our little pants off to The
    Doobie Brothers and Marshall Chapman at the end of the show right here.


    "Sala USA" for Patagonia Music

    Along with a gaggle of great musicians, we got together and made a studio
    version of "Sala", a song we've been performing live on the road, learned
    during the making of Afterquake... and if you've seen us live you've
    probably sung along (in your most perfect Chinese ethnic minority dialect)!

    Our friend, Stephanie Ching is currently editing a video of the making of
    the song with piles of musicians you'll know from our traveling road show.

    "Sala USA" is available on iTunes and all the money goes straight to
    Jane Goodall's China branch of her Roots and Shoots program. Or you can
    order the song through the Patagonia site and learn more about the other
    musicians and their chosen environmental causes.

    6:25 PM

  • A Quick Note from the Road: City of Refuge Tour

    Hello from Colorado!

       Out on the road with dear pals & rad musicians Kai Welch, Jamie Dick & Jared
       Engel with a gorgeous & rockin' addition on the fiddle, Odessa Jorgensen.
       Also carrying on with the crew is Jared's brother from Brooklyn, filmmaker,
       Evan Engel. Evan is making short clips of our travels and adventures- to
     check out the first one click here. First clip is about leaving town, the
       second - to be posted tomorrow, is about the Folk Alliance hang- so tune in!

       We just finished the long van trip from Memphis to Boulder after playing and
       hanging at the Folk Alliance for 3 days. We saw so many dear old friends and
       made a bunch of new ones. Now we're taking to the mountains of CO. Aspen
       today. Colorado Springs and Denver this weekend. Let your Colorado pals
       know... and hope to see YOU out there!

       Abigail

    8:16 PM

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