Bela Fleck to guest with Abigail Washburn

Uncle Earl is midway through a delicious set featuring lots of new material from an upcoming album. Right now Erin Coates, the new bassist formerly of Hit & Run Bluegrass, also playing here, is being introduced. But on the last introduction, of Abigail Washburn, looking great in her red dress ("she was the only one the did not get the black dress memo," said KC Groves), she mentioned who would be playing with her in her Saturday morning solo set. Ben Sollee, cello, no surprise. KC Driessen, fiddle, they're friends. Someone I guitar, I missed who it was. This is getting to be a full band. And Bela Fleck, banjo, big surprise.

Well, we know that Bela has done stuff with Abigail before, including producing her solo album. But you might think Bela would be busy with the Flecktones. Yet he is turning up at Grey Fox unannounced.

Meanwhile the band-audience mutual love-fest is happening on stage as Uncle Earl moves into I Don't Need No Man. Beautiful. Time to move on to my next post, which is catching up with the Pete Wernick narrative.