One of the most multifaceted minds in roots music, Alison Brown is a Grammy-winning musician, Grammy-nominated producer and co-founder of the renowned Compass Records Group. Brown will take the stage at the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor with her band on June 7 for a show that will make the audience believe in the sound of the banjo. Alison Brown.
Courtesy of the Opera House Although Brown began her musical career as a teenager in the Southern California bluegrass scene, she has built a reputation as one of today’s most forward-thinking and innovative banjo players. She is known for taking the instrument far beyond its Appalachian roots by blending bluegrass and jazz influences into a sonic tapestry that has earned praise and recognition from a variety of national tastemakers, including The Wall Street Journal, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR and USA Today. “Like James Taylor’s voice or B.
B. King’s guitar, Alison Brown’s banjo is an instrument possessed of a unique sonic signature and an inescapable beauty ..
. an artist who never ceases to delight,” Billboard Magazine writes. “Banjo music is seldom thought of as ‘mellow’ or, dare we say ‘pretty,’ but Alison Brown makes it so in the jazz-classical-pop-folk-Latin mix of the Alison Brown Quartet.
As a true ground-breaker, she’s opening up whole new vistas for an instrument once solely associated with pickin’ ‘n’ grinnin’ ” a reviewer from USA Today writes. “Alison Brown left a career in investment ban.
