Alison Brown

Alison Brown is a GRAMMY-winning musician, producer, composer, and co-founder of the internationally acclaimed, Nashville-based Compass Records Group, which marked its 30th anniversary in 2025. The first woman to win an instrumentalist of the year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association, she is acclaimed as one of today’s most innovative banjo players. Alison is the Country Music Hall of Fame’s 2025 Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum honoree. She has received the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award and was the first female 5-string banjoist inducted into the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame. She is President of the Nashville Board of Governors of The Recording Academy and "plays it forward" through her online banjo school at ArtistWorks. She is also the host of “Pick Like a Girl,” a weekly show on SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction channel. Alison is a frequent collaborator with Steve Martin and their album Safe, Sensible and Sane debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts. Together, the pair’s musical videos have achieved over 40M views on social media.