Word: banjo
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...Harvard or Yale. She didn’t compare professors, student politics or dorms. She didn’t scan course catalogs. Instead, she pored over the club listings in Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. Unimpressed by New Haven’s sparse offerings, Brown packed her bags and her Mayfair banjo for Cambridge’s thriving bluegrass scene...
Brown, now a Grammy award-winning artist and CEO of her own label, took a roundabout path to banjo stardom. After pre-med flirtation at Harvard, there was an MBA and a stint as an investment banker at Smith Barney. Ultimately, she traded in stocks and bonds for three-finger picking and shows at the Grand Ole Opry...
Brown was eight years old when her parents, both lawyers, took up six-string guitar. She begged for lessons of her own, but fell in love with the plucky sounding banjo two years later, after their teacher introduced her to banjo great Earl Scruggs...
...real learning started after the family’s move to San Diego, Calif., the next year. “Banjo is really an oral tradition; you learn by jamming, not by formal lessons,” she says...
...PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. On Independence weekend, fiddlers from across North America will gather in Port Townsend for the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. The fiddlers--experts on violin and banjo--will play traditional tunes from their hometowns across the U.S., Canada and Mexico...