Munson William Proctor Art Institute Presents Allison Brown Quartet, 3/31

The Munson William Proctor Art Institute will present the Allison Brown Quartet on March 31st at 8 p.m. Tickets will cost $30.

Alison Brown has achieved success in many areas: a Harvard graduate, Compass Records label co-founder and owner, mother, and, the role that most people know her in: a Grammy-winning banjo virtuoso and 10 albums under her belt. The Alison Brown Quartet offers up an astonishingly original instrumental sound that blends bluegrass, jazz, Latin and Celtic music and takes the banjo far from its stereotyped hillbilly roots. Alison has garnered extensive critical acclaim for her music including features on NPR’s All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood and in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Billboard Magazine among many others.

Since 1994, the Alison Brown Quartet has toured domestically and abroad, including performances at The Kennedy Center, MerleFest, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Celtic Connections, Newport Folk Festival, Dublin National Concert Hall, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Cambridge Folk Festival, The Edmonton Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Strawberry Music Festival and the Philadelphia Folk Festival.