Alison Brown Quartet

Monday , June 30, 2003
08:00 pm
Location: Creole Gallery
concert ($15)

Elderly Instruments and the Creole Gallery are proud to present the Alison Brown Quartet, live at the Creole (1218 Turner St., just around the corner from Elderly in Lansing's Old Town.)
Alison Brown is known for her jazz, pop and even Latin influences on an instrument not normally associated with those styles.
Brown has recorded eight critically acclaimed albums, including her Grammy winner "Fair Weather" in 2000. She has earned multiple Grammy nominations and has been featured on "Sunday Morning", NPR's "All Things Considered"and in the Wall Street Journal.
Who would think a BA from Harvard and an MBA from UCLA would lead an investment banker like Brown down the path to international musical acclaim - with stops at Carnegie Hall and the Grammy Award acceptance podium along the way?
Brown's style is "...a jazz-classical-pop-folk-Latin mix....a true ground breaker, opening up whole new vistas for an instrument once solely associated with pickin' 'n' grinnin'," writes USA Today.
Named "Banjo Player of the Year" by the International Bluegrass Music Association, Brown and her Quartet (John R. Burr piano, Garry West bass and Kendrick Freeman drums) take the banjo quantum leaps beyond traditional bluegrass in an exciting program that the Hollywood Reporter describes as "an ear opening pleasure!"
She and West are also founders of Compass Records, one of the
nation's leading independent labels, and have been guest lecturers at a variety of universities including Harvard Business School, Dartmouth and the University of Colorado.
Brown will also lead a banjo master class at Elderly, 4:30-6:30pm on Monday, June 30. Cost for the workshop is 50 per person. Space is limited, so advance registration is strongly recommended. Register either in person at Elderly, or by phone, (with credit card) by calling 372-7890 locally, or toll free at (888) 473-5810

"Banjo's New First String. Brown's sweet, fluid jazz fusions are as sophisticated as they are beguiling." --The Boston Globe

"...like Bela Fleck (Alison Brown) has raised the art of banjo playing to a higher calling." --StereoReview

Check out recordings we carry featuring Alison Brown