| 词条 | Abby the Spoon Lady |
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| name = Abby the Spoon Lady | image = File:Abby_the_Spoon_Lady.jpg | alt = | caption = Abby the Spoon Lady performing in Asheville, North Carolina. | image_size = | landscape = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | label = | origin = Wichita, Kansas, United States | birth_name = Abby Roach | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1981|10|29}} | birth_place = Wichita, Kansas, United States | other_names = Spoon Lady | genre = American folk, American roots | years_active = {{start date|2002}}–present | occupation = {{flatlist|
}} | instrument = Spoons, musical saw | associated_acts = Chris Rodrigues | website = {{URL|spoonladymusic.com}} }}Abby the Spoon Lady (born October 29, 1981 in Wichita, Kansas), born Abby Roach, is an American musician, radio personality,[1] and free speech activist. Her music focuses on the American roots genre. She tours with one man band Chris Rodrigues.[2][3] HistoryAbby 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 train.[4] Today she hosts storytelling events where she discusses the lifestyle of the American hobo.[5] She spent a good amount of her time traveling recording the stories, interviews and songs of other American travelers.[6] 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.[7][8][9][10] Today she records buskers through a project called Busker Broadcast, and records interviews and songs of travelers passing through Asheville.[6] 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.[11] RadioAbby 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.[1] GenreHer repertoire consists of a mix of Americana, early jazz, ragtime for string instruments, country blues, jug band, Western swing, Vaudeville, and Appalachian folk. InfluencesMusicians 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 References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.ashevillefm.org/show/busker-broadcast/|title=Busker Broadcast|website=Asheville FM|accessdate=28 December 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web|last=Hesse |first=Dan |url=http://mountainx.com/blogwire/abby-the-spoon-lady-performs-at-the-mothlight-on-sunday-feb-12th/ |title=Abby The Spoon Lady performs at The Mothlight on Sunday Feb. 12th | Mountain Xpress |publisher=Mountainx.com |date=2017-01-13 |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2017/01/09/asheville-buskers-left-cold/95996398/ |title=Asheville buskers left in the cold |publisher=Citizen-times.com |date= |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 4. ^{{cite book | author =Marla Hardee Milling| title = Only in Asheville: An Eclectic History| location = Charleston, SC| publisher = The History Press| pages = 108–110| date = 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web|last=Marshall |first=Alli |url=https://mountainx.com/blogwire/abby-the-spoon-lady-shares-stories-and-music-at-trade-and-lore-coffee-house-july-14/ |title=Abby the Spoon Lady shares stories and music at Trade and Lore Coffee House, July 14 | Mountain Xpress |publisher=Mountainx.com |date=2016-06-27 |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/q/segment/11385452 |title=CBC Listen | Q | Why 'The Spoon Lady' Abby Roach is recording America's buskers |publisher=Cbc.ca |date=2017-01-17 |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 7. ^{{cite web|last=Daffron |first=Virginia |url=https://mountainx.com/news/buskers-to-city-dont-put-art-in-a-box/ |title=Buskers to City: Don’t put art in a box | Mountain Xpress |publisher=Mountainx.com |date=2015-08-27 |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/04/28/buskers-jostle-new-laws/26532669/ |title=Designated zones, music sales: Buskers jostle for new laws |publisher=Citizen-times.com |date= |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 9. ^{{cite web|last=McDonald |first=Michael |url=https://mountainx.com/arts/asheville-buskers-collective-meets-to-discuss-downtown-busking-issues/ |title=Asheville Buskers Collective continues discussing downtown busking issues | Mountain Xpress |publisher=Mountainx.com |date= |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/08/25/buskers-halt-city-pilot-program/32292971/ |title=Buskers' concerns halt proposed city pilot program |publisher=Citizen-times.com |date= |accessdate=2017-01-31}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4066878/|title=Buskin' Blues|publisher=|accessdate=28 December 2018|via=www.imdb.com}} External links
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