Featuring Alison Brown, Claire Lynch, John Cowan, Forrest O'Connor and
more, this is a multi-artist benefit show, so we may even be adding
folks right up to the date of the event! Brown learned to play guitar
at 8 and banjo at 10. When she was 12, she met fiddler Stuart Duncan,
and in the summer of 1978, Brown traveled across the country with
Duncan and his father, playing 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.In 1987, Alison Krauss
asked Brown to join her band, Union Station, and she spent three years
touring and playing with the band. In 1990, she moved to Tennessee,
and was named International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player
of the Year in 1991. Long recognized and praised as a creative force
in acoustic music, Claire Lynch is a pioneer who continually pushes
the boundaries of the bluegrass genre. She is the reigning Female
Vocalist of the Year for the International Bluegrass Music Association
(IBMA) and a 2012 recipient of the United States Artists Walker
Fellowship. Her career has been decorated with many other accolades
including two GRAMMY nominations and IBMA Vocalist awards in 1997 and
2010. Tickets are $25 per person. Proceeds benefit the Carter Hill
Garden Park.
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