Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman + Séamus Óg

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Nora Brown is the ‘brightest young star in old-time music’ (Songlines), playing traditional music focused on southern Appalachian banjo and guitar, with her singing revealing her ‘thirst for storytelling’ (NPR). She digs deep: ‘A reverent nod to deeply-rooted ole-time traditions, and an exhibit of sonic heirlooms carefully amended to meet a modern moment with vintage elegance,’ according to American Songwriter. The New Yorker called her most recent solo record Long Time To Be Gone ‘a disarming collection of traditional laments and exquisite banjo instrumentals’. Nora will perform in a duo with award-winning fiddler Stephanie Coleman. First brought together by Brooklyn’s tight-knit old-time music community, Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman share a rich musical partnership that belies their 20 year age difference. Stephanie is a master old-time fiddler, having recorded with and toured internationally over the last two decades with celebrated artists including trailblazing all-women string band Uncle Earl. Beginning at age six, under the tutelage of the late musician and scholar Shlomo Pestcoe, Brown also counts Alice Gerrard, George Gibson and the late John Cohen, Lee Sexton and John Haywood among her teachers and mentors. Just 19 years old, Brown has released three albums, a single, and an EP on Jalopy Records – all of which have charted on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts during the first week of release. Support comes from Séamus Óg.