Alison Brown at John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts

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Grammy winner Alison Brown has composed and played her way into the affections of fans of jazz-hued acoustic music with a unique voice on a relatively unexplored instrument, the 5-string banjo. "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" (Billboard). With a sound rooted in bluegrass, Brown has achieved an international reputation by pushing the banjo out of its familiar Appalachian settings and into new musical territory.