Alison Brown, born on August 7, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut, is an American
banjo player and guitarist. She began playing guitar at age eight and banjo at
ten, winning the Canadian National Banjo Championship by twelve, which led to a
performance at the Grand Ole Opry. In 1987, Alison Krauss invited Brown to join
her band, Union Station. Brown's debut album Simple Pleasures was released in
1990. She won the International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the
Year award in 1991 and collaborated with Béla Fleck on "Leaving Cottondale" from
her 2000 album Fair Weather, w...