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Alison Brown (born August 7, 1962) is an American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer. She has won and has been nominated for several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck, for her unique style of playing. In her music, she blends bluegrass, jazz, Latin and Celtic influences.
On her 2023 album, aptly titled ON BANJO, Alison explores all the corners of the banjo’s potential on a set of predominantly original tunes. Featured guests include Anat Cohen, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Sharon Isbin, Kronos Quartet and Steve Martin.
She’s acclaimed as one of today’s finest progressive banjo players, but you rarely find her in a conventional bluegrass setting. Instead, she’s known for leading an ensemble that successfully marries a broad array of roots-influenced music: folk, jazz, Celtic and Latin.
Alison Brown plays music on the banjo. Acoustic instrumental music has never been so beautifully represented as by Alison Brown . As one of the most multi-faceted minds on today’s roots music scene, every one of Alison’s endeavors is marked by innovation, intelligence, and grace.
Aug 3, 2023 · During that time, Alison Krauss invited Brown to play banjo with her band. Brown seized the opportunity, climbed into the van on tour and never went back to investment banking.
“In Brown’s hands, the banjo is capable of fluid musical phrases of boundless beauty.”
Watch Alison Brown and Steve Martin play a duet version of their IBMA-nominated tune "Foggy Morning Breaking" from Alison's new album ON BANJO, out now on Compass Records:...
As Amelia Earhart is to aviation, as Julia Child is to the culinary arts, Alison Brown is to the five-string banjo. She created a seismic shift in the instrument’s history when her wholly individual style gained her entry into the elite class of acknowledged banjo innovators.
May 24, 2023 · Alison Brown found her life's work early when she started playing banjo as a pre-teen growing up in southern California. But it took some time and real life experience - a Harvard degree, an MBA and a couple of years in banking - before she finally gave herself permission to chase a music career.
Mar 15, 2024 · As Amelia Earhart is to aviation, as Julia Child is to the culinary arts, Alison Brown is to the five-string banjo. She created a seismic shift in the instrument’s history when her wholly individual style gained her entry into the elite class of acknowledged banjo innovators.
