Alison Brown to Take Stage at Diana Wortham Theatre

Alison Brown has had a great few months. She released “The Song of the Banjo” — an album with a star-studded list of featured artists — in early October. Now the Grammy-winning musician is on the road touring in the east.

Her next stop is Asheville, a place she wishes she could spend more time exploring.

“Unfortunately, as much as I love Asheville, we’re almost always in and out,” she said.

Although she’s from a family of lawyers, the five-string banjo player found her love for music early in life.

“I started taking lessons then I started going to the San Diego Bluegrass Club meetings and meeting other musicians,” she said. “It was pretty organic but it really all started with Early Scruggs.”

“The Song of the Banjo” has been critically-acclaimed as a banjo record for people who don’t “do” banjo. Brown agrees. “[The Song of the Banjo is] Banjo music that anybody can like,” she said.

Brown is settled in Nashville now, a city aptly referred to as “Music City”. She said that location is strategic as well as beneficial to her music.

“One thing about the community here in Nashville — and musician community in general — it’s never hard to get people to play with you,” she said.  It’s always kind of surprising when you ask somebody as amazing as Steve Gadd and the Indigo Girls or Keb’ Mo’ — all people who played on the new record — if they would do something and they’re always just so generous and gracious and want to collaborate.”

Catch Alison take the stage at the Diana Wortham Theatre on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m.

Purchase tickets here: http://www.dwtheatre.com/