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Abbie Gardner is best known by many as a founding member of Red Molly. This highly acclaimed female Americana trio was formed late one night at the 2004 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and went on to become a popular national and international touring act. After gracing stages from Denver to Denmark and from Australia to Austin for eleven years, Red Molly began an extended hiatus in 2015. They re-formed for a national tour in 2017, before going back into hiatus.
Despite the periodic breaks, Gardner’s solo career has never paused. Her first full-length recording, My Craziest Dream (2004), was an album of jazz standards, featuring her father on piano. The album earned Abbie an entry in the 2009 Hal Leonard book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide. Her most recent album, DobroSinger, her sixth solo release, climbed to #11 on the Billboard Blues Chart.
Gardner has an uncanny ability to cross genres, excelling in all of them. The Ectophile’s Guide to Good Music says of her, “She can be touching, wrenching, haunting, or bluesy, or all three at different moments in one song.” Abbie grew up with jazz, since her father was a pianist who played with the likes of Gene Krupa. Gardner studied classical flute extensively and sang in the Boston University Inner Strength Gospel Choir. But what she's best known for today is her fiery mastery of the dobro and her supple and expressive vocals. Bluegrass Today says “It’s not typical for a dobro player to sing lead, especially when the musician in question is a soloist. However, that is exactly what Abbie Gardner of the Americana trio Red Molly has done on her latest solo effort DobroSinger. The end result is extraordinarily good. One of the advantages of having such sparse instrumentation is that it allows the listener to connect with the material on an even deeper level. Gardner’s delivery on each of these songs is spectacular.”
Gardner is an award-winning songwriter with accolades such as the 2008 Lennon Award Winner (folk) and the 2008 American Songwriter Magazine Grand Prize Lyric Winner.
“One of the best artists in Americana music today.” --Twangville