Banjoist Alison Brown’s reach is far and wide, with her skills catching the attention of performers such as Steve Martin and Alison Krauss, but her roots are firmly planted in La Jolla. Brown — ...
SAN DIEGO — If your goal in life is to make the banjo cool again, winning a Grammy Award and teaming up with actor Steve Martin are two good ways to go. In this Zevely Zone, I went to La Jolla to ...
Steve Martin is back in his banjo bag, linking up with the celebrated picker Alison Brown for a new collaborative album, Safe, Sensible and Sane, out Oct. 17 via Brown's Compass Records. The album ...
Grammy Award-winner Alison Brown’s status as the world’s most unlikely banjo star is as undeniable as her command of the steel-stringed instrument long synonymous with her name. Her star-studded new ...
Steve Martin is eating a “fabulous smoked salmon” sandwich, an ordinary activity that he somehow makes amusing by his sheer delight in scarfing it down. His current collaborator, renowned banjoist ...
When it comes to the banjo, Alison Brown transcends the instrument. While the banjo is most associated with bluegrass and roots music, Brown is progressive, and taking the banjo in new directions.
“Receivables and payables. The dry stuff. If you don’t have a handle on it, you can’t run a business.” This year marks the 10th anniversary of Compass, the label Brown co-founded with her husband ...
Alison Brown says she's hoping for May flowers when she plays in Bentonville on Saturday. "It was a bit of a mud fest last year," she says of the FreshGrass Festival in Bentonville. Brown has been ...
This hits hard. Alison Brown, who was the retail and front of house manager at London's Cartoon Museum since 2006 has died, after catching the coronavirus. She had been in hospital with a stomach ...