he's led the genre-bending ensemble bela fleck and the flecktones.ago he wrote his first stand-alone concerto for banjo. ♪ç thirty-seven year old washburn is known for more traditional, old-time banjo music, playing solo. ♪ç and also a part of the all- female bluegrass band called uncle earl. as a couple, they finish each other's sentences, but their different styles of playing-- well, that can bring problems. >> we have different limitations and different challenges playing together. and i think abby has technical challenges that get posed because i ask her to do things she hasn't done before. >> brown: like what? >> oh, all kinds of things. just to play a chromatic scale is hard for me. the world i come from is these tunes that are trancelike and they repeat over and over again, almost like irish or scottishç traditional music, appalachian music. >> we play very different styles. abby is going to play for you a little bit of what's called the claw hammer style. notice she's not wearing any picks on her right hand. our right hands are really diff