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Alison Brown was born on 7 August, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is an American musician (born 1962). Discover Alison Brown's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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Songwriter, musician, Record Producer |
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61 years old |
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Leo |
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7 August 1962 |
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7 August |
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Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
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United States
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Alison Brown Height, Weight & Measurements
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Alison Brown Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Alison Brown worth at the age of 61 years old? Alison Brown’s income source is mostly from being a successful Songwriter. She is from United States. We have estimated Alison Brown's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Alison Brown (born August 7, 1962) is an American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer.
She has won and has been nominated for several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck, for her unique style of playing.
In her music, she blends bluegrass, jazz, Latin and Celtic influences.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Brown learned to play guitar at eight and banjo at ten.
In the summer of 1978, Brown traveled across the country with Duncan and his father, playing at festivals and contests.
She won first place at the Canadian National Banjo Championship, which helped her land a one-night gig at the Grand Ole Opry.
She has a daughter, Hannah West, and a son, Brendan West.
In 1980, Brown went to Harvard University, where she studied history and literature.
After graduating from Harvard, she earned an MBA from UCLA.
In 1982, while still at Harvard, Brown helped to reunite the Northern Lights band after a five-year hiatus, she became a band member until 1984, when she moved back to California.
Brown worked for two years with Smith Barney in San Francisco, and then took a break to pursue her music interests.
In 1987, Alison Krauss asked Brown to join her band, Union Station.
Brown spent three years with Krauss.
In 1990, she moved to Tennessee, and was named International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year in 1991, the first female in the IBMA's history to win an instrumental of the year award.
The 1990 album I've Got That Old Feeling, which Brown played banjo on, won a Grammy award.
In the early 1990s, Brown and her husband, bass player Garry West, started their own record label, Small World Music.
She participated in Alison Krauss's Grammy-winning album I've Got That Old Feeling, and received a Grammy nomination for her own recording, Simple Pleasures (1990).
This experience led Brown to merge bluegrass with jazz and folk idioms, in a manner similar to those of Béla Fleck and David Grisman.
This company eventually led to the launch of Compass Records in 1995, an internationally recognized label, which has such artists as Victor Wooten, Colin Hay, A.J. Croce, Glen Phillips, Robbie Fulks, Bobby Osborne, Altan, Darol Anger, Elizabeth & the Catapult and others.
In 2001, in collaboration with Béla Fleck, Brown won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for her song "Leaving Cottondale" from her album Fair Weather.
Stolen Moments (2005), in Brown's estimation, is her most musically successful record to date.
"For the first time, I feel like I've created a true hybrid sound that suggests its influences – bluegrass, jazz, Celtic music – but when taken as a whole isn't any one of these things."
– Brown's words about the album on the group's official webpage.
In 2006, The Compass Records Group acquired the rights to the Green Linnet catalog and the next year acquired the seminal Dublin-based Irish music label Mulligan records.
These two acquisitions made Compass Records Group the leading label for Irish and Celtic music.
In 2007, Brown was honored as one of Irish America magazine's Stars of the South.
Her last album, The Company You Keep (2009) follows this trend of mixing different acoustic genres resulting in fresh-sounding new hybrids.
Brown continues touring with her quartet internationally.
As a famous Harvard University alumna, she was invited to play at the inauguration of Harvard's president Drew Faust.
In 2015, Brown received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association for the furtherance of bluegrass music.
She has also cultivated an impressive repertoire as a record producer, helming projects for artists such as Dale Ann Bradley, Peter Rowan, Quiles & Cloud, and the album from Claire Lynch, North By South.
In 2017, Compass acquired Red House Records, the St. Paul, MN based folk and Americana label started by Bob Feldman in 1983, bring artists including Greg Brown, The Wailin’ Jennys, John Gorka, Chastity Brown and Davina and the Vagabonds to the Compass Records Group family.
Since that time, Red House has added Steve Poltz, The Small Glories, The Whitmore Sisters and Kate Taylor to the roster.
The Special Consensus - Rivers and Roads (2018)
The Special Consensus - Chicago Barn Dance (2020)