Alison Brown

thumb|right|Brown in 2006 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. Quotes When I was growing up people would always say, and it was meant in the kindest possible way, ‘You’re really good for a girl,’ because there weren’t a lot of girls or women playing. Out of this small pond of people, it was surprising to them. In my opinion, you’d have to be pretty unworldly to make a comment like that anymore. Nobody had the success that Alison Krauss had. So, when that happened, I think it started to make it difficult for people to look at women in bluegrass as some kind of exceptional thing. Here was a woman who really blew out the boundaries for the music and really expanded the potential for the music and brought in new listeners. As quoted by Devon Leger of Paste (magazine) Paste (February 9, 2017) External links Category:Guitarists from the United States Category:Composers from the United States Category:Music producers from the United States Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Women guitarists Category:Women from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:People from Hartford Category:1962 births Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Living people Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni Category:Bluegrass musicians