Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman make a stand against Trump’s control of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and JD Vance, attending a National Symphony Orchestra concert the same evening, is met with boos from the audience.
Banjo player and singer Nora Brown and old-time fiddle player Stephanie Coleman performed a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR recently. They included a couple of tracks from their new EP, Lady of the Lake, and “Across the Rocky Mountain”/”The Old Blue Bonnet”.
There is a shrewd exuberance in the way Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman play together on Lady of the Lake, taking turns to lead and leaving plenty of space for each other to shine; it will leave you wanting more.
Nora Brown has teamed up with award-winning fiddle player Stephanie Coleman for their new EP ‘Lady of the Lake’. Listen to their lead single….Outstanding musicianship from start to finish.
Watch Nora Brown performing Wild Bill Jones with fiddle player Stephanie Coleman; plus, watch a recent clip of her performing with The Rheingans Sisters at Folkové Prázdniny.
Nora Brown’s ‘Long Time To Be Gone’ is an engrossing and resonant album from start to finish. Fellow banjo player Jake Blount got it absolutely right when he recently tweeted: “If you’re not listening to Nora Brown yet, you’re wasting your life”.
Taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Long Time To Be Gone’, and recorded in the historic St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights, watch Nora Brown performing ‘Cumberland Gap’, on a fretless tackhead banjo built by her dad.
On the 26th of August, old-time musician Nora Brown returns with her third album ‘Long Time To Be Gone’ on Jalopy Records. Recorded in St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights, listen to her playing Little Satchel, a banjo tune collected by John Cohen in 1965.
Nora Brown returns with ‘Sidetack My Engine’ featuring special guests Jerron ‘Blindboy’ Paxton and Jackson Lynch, an excellent album that marks the next chapter for this accomplished performer.
Watch Nora Brown performing Virgil Anderson’s version of Wild Goose Chase from his album On the Tennessee Line. She makes that banjo sing so beautifully!
Cinnamon Tree, the debut album from a teenaged Nora Brown, took me by surprise. I love the tunes and it makes great listening but even more importantly it shows that even the old tunes are still capable of being passed on. It also shows us what a talent for playing and interpretation Nora has.
