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Show IPAGE 10 U NIVERSITY JOURNAL ARTS MONDAY, JULY l , 1001 I Alison Brown Quartet will perform Sunday ties to traditional American m u ic," the businesswoman explains. "I really feel like we A former investment banker, he has busine µegrees from Harvard and UCLA. But put out music that needs to be o ut there, that needs to be available co people. There's her joy is found in playing the banjo. Yet the word "playing" is likely an a lot of great music out there that people never get to hear.. . .I'd like them to know understatement; the new musical territorie Alison Brown has frontiered, with her business savvy and lauded talent on the banjo, ledjazzTimes publication in December that there are all these other great artists. That' what we're trying to dq with Compass." 1998 to label her a "priestess of picking!" Loui a Branscomb is an author, ongwriter and banjo player, and someone who piritually uplifting will certainly be the effect on audience at the Summer Evening once interviewed and wrote an article on Brown. And, coincidentally, Bran comb i.s Concert erie , ho ted by UU' chool of Continuing & Professional rudies. The the first banjo player Brown aw in performance. Branscomb submits, that Brown and Concerts, each unday evening through AugUSt 12, are free and open co the public. her work are "a gracefuJ balancing (of) bluegrass and bu ine . " The Wall Street Children six and older are invited to attend with an adult. All performances begin ac Journal apparently agreed in December 1998 when it ran an article 7 p.m. in the.Randall Jones Theatre, at 300 We t Center Street, on the praising Brown's unconventional entrepreneurship, and uncommon . UU campus. talent. On July 8, the "Al' on Brown Quartet," will tantalize listeners with its "It's a very interesting place to be," Brown reveals. ··1 don 't think Latin to da k-al tune , on i.n truments from the Australian dijeridoo to there are many people who reaUy can see things from both sides. I ve the banjo. An intemationaUy-recognized banjoist, Al~ on Brown, along been on the artist' ide .. .I also see the sales, the marketing, with her hu band and bass-player Gan:y West; John Burr on piano; and mechanicals and royalties and how all that cuff work cogether." ln Kendrick Freeman on drum ·, expands the banjo's musical horizons, her position, Brown ays, "I feel like I'm alway pu hing the envelope, incorpor-..iting element of bluegrass, jazz and even Latin mu ic, being innovative." especially in tht: Brazilian- ounding ~coast Walle" or exciting "Mambo he is-in the office, and on the tage. Brown and her custom-builc, Banjo ." electric nylon-string banjo captu red a Gn1.mmy for "Be t Corn1try While Brown i:. c nsidered an on-the-cutting-edge musician , "opening In trument" for her tune, "Leaving Cottondale" on the Grammyup whole new vi.sf.as" on the instn1mental-mu ic horizon (U. :A Today) , nominated album "Fair Weather." he was also nominated for a ome might think, that initially her earnest pursuance of a busine rammy for the album ~ i.mpk Plea ures." And, she is the only female t:ducnion and career was a bit misdirected. Not o. It' exactly the road recipient (1991) of the International Bluegrass Music As ociation ·s she was meant co take to bring her co the ice of succes he currently Banjo Player of the Year Award-bluegrass mu ·ic' highest accolade for enjoy . a banjo in ·crumentalist. Alison pos esses a bachelor's degree in literJture and hi ·tory from Harvard and a Overall, Brown remarks, ··1 guess the idea just came out of wanting to play a banjo, master' in bu -iness administration from L\. "One of the reasons I chose to go to but still being able to get thi other voice.~ She certainly does capture omething CL\," he explains, "was that they had a I c of concemrati n in the encenainrnent intriguing in her command of the banjo, while al captivating audience . In fact , in<luscry, and I was thinking of maybe trying to find an MBA-rype job that would allow me to combine my love for music with a busines degree." he spent some ti.me in the JazzTimes say · ju t when you 're thinking there are limitations t Q the: banjo, Alison Brown unt:quivocalJy -challenges you to think again! " banking industry, bur her affair with the banjo eventually stole her away . True, you might not hear the sounds of the Alison Brown Quartet on Top O r-Jdio, "Looking back at my family :md background, I think I shouJd b playing flute or but only becau ·e they' re being Ii ' tened to in ·'higher" place ·. ·n1eir selection "View something! But ever ·ince I ht::mJ Earl ·cruggs· ·' Foggy Mountain Banjo" when I w~ From Above"-appropriacely enough- wa · chu c::n b ASA as wake-up music for the LO, I've loved the b.tnjo." crew of the space ·Jmttle Columbia . Indeed, the suitor of che world of .finance: lost out to the music industry bc:au, but, Make · ·en ·e then, that Stl:!reoReview concludes, char in the truest fonn of a priestess mind yu1 , ii wa,;n 't to th typical record ompany next door. She and West founded of picking, Alison Brown "has r.iised che art of banjo playing lO a higher calling. 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