Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert
with Grammy Winner and Harvard Grad Alison Brown
Special Harvard Discount for Sunday-Dec. 19-8pm Performance!
Join the Harvard Club and the Georgia Chapter of Harvardwood at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University on Sunday, December 19 to see Harvard grad and Grammy-award-winning virtuoso banjo player Alison Brown perform in the Eighteenth Annual Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert!
This popular event, directed and hosted by James Flannery, features the rollicking high spirits and mystical beauty of Celtic and Appalachian music, dance, poetry, song and story. Be a part of this great group holiday tradition, and discover uplifting spirits and conversely reverent tones in this seasonal crowd pleaser. The 2010 Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert will feature the talents of Grammy Award-winners Moya Brennan, “the Queen of Celtic Song,” and virtuoso banjo player Alison Brown as well as numerous talented musicians, dancers and storytellers from Ireland, the U.S. and the Atlanta area. The Atlanta Journal Constitution describes the Concert as,“A rollicking yet reverend experience.” This year’s concert carries a special meaning, because it will be filmed as a PBS special to be broadcast in December 2011 and thereafter as a Holiday classic.
Alison Brown is a Grammy-winning banjo player, Harvard grad, UCLA MBA, and a co-founder and owner of Nashville-based Compass Records. She was personally selected to play at the 2007 inauguration of Harvard’ first female president, Drew Faust Read more about Alison below.
By joining us on December 19th at 8 p.m., you will receive a special 20% discount on tickets!
To join us and receive your 20% discount for the December 19th 8p.m. show, buy your tickets now by following the instructions given below! (Note: Discounted tickets cannot be purchased online, but only in person or over the phone). Ticket availability is limited and tickets are selling fast.
Date: Sunday, December 19th
Time: The show starts at 8 p.m.
If you would like to meet before the show at 6:30 p.m. for dinner at Everybody’s Pizza, RSVP to Ashley Filip at ashleyfilip@post.harvard.edu.
Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, 1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA 30322 (at Emory University)
Admission: Discounted tickets for Harvard alumni and their guests are available on Sunday, December 19th, 8 p.m., for $20. This price reflects the discount but does not reflect taxes and handling charges.
To join us on December 19th at 8 p.m. and receive the $20 ticket price, you may purchase your tickets by phone or in person only (no discounts available online).
To purchase tickets: To purchase tickets, call the Schwartz Center box office at (404) 727-5050, or visit the Arts at Emory Box Office in the Schwartz Center, and mention that you are with the Harvard Club to receive your discount. The box office is open Monday - Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Discounts are not available online.
Alison Brown
Alison Brown has achieved success in many areas: a Harvard graduate, record label co-founder and owner, mother, and, the role that most people know her in: banjo virtuoso. An internationally recognized musician with a wide-reaching and loyal fan base, Brown first came to national prominence when she was asked by Alison Krauss to join her band Union Station in 1989. Brown had already made a name for herself prior to that by performing extensively with fiddler Stuart Duncan, and on occasional pick-up sessions with artists such as Vince Gill, Byron Berline and John Hickman.
Brown’s journey to a professional music career took a detour while she attended Harvard, studying history and literature, then UCLA, where she secured an MBA and went to work as an investment banker. After taking a hiatus to return to composing and recording music, Brown assembled the material for her solo debut, the GRAMMY nominated Simple Pleasures. A three-year stint with Alison Krauss and Union Station and a year serving as band leader for Michelle Shocked followed as did bluegrass music’s highest accolade for an instrumentalist: the International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year in 1991.
In 1995 Brown put her financial background to work, founding Compass Records with her husband Garry West. Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2009, the Nashville-based Compass Records Group is an internationally recognized label group with a catalog of over 600 roots music releases across the Compass Records, Green Linnet, Mulligan Records and Xenophile catalogs. Compass Records Group is home to artists such as Colin Hay, Catie Curtis, Lúnasa, Solas, Martin Hayes and The Waifs, and has been called “one of the greatest independent labels of the last decade” by Billboard Magazine. Since its inception Compass Records Group (the subject of both Harvard Business School and Darden Business School case studies) has pursued an ambitious path of growth and met every goal including the most important one: providing a thriving haven of creativity for artists and a reliable beacon of quality for music fans.
Brown tours internationally with the Alison Brown Quartet and was the 2007 recipient of Irish America Magazine’s “Stars of the South Award” for Compass Records’ efforts towards the “cultivation and preservation of Irish music.” Brown’s discography includes four releases on Vanguard Records as well as six on the Compass Records label, including The Company You Keep (March 2009). She currently lives in Nashville with her husband Garry West and their 2 children: Hannah (8) and Brendan (3).
Alison Brown’s Myspace page: www.myspace.com/abonbanjo
Alison Brown's Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alison-Brown/33819074798
Questions? Contact Ashley Filip at ashleyfilip@post.harvard.edu