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Alison Brown Quartet featuring special guests Joe Craven & John Doyle with The Greencards

Saturday 2nd February 2008, 7.30pm

ABC

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Grammy-winning banjoist Alison Brown makes a welcome return to the Celtic Connections stage this year after being forced to miss last year due to the impending birth of her son Brendan.

Alison has invited two of her favourite musicians - multi-instrumentalist Joe Craven and Irish guitar great and rhythm genius John Doyle - to join quartet regulars John R. Burr (piano), Garry West (bass) and David Heyer (drums).

Alison describes this sextet as her dream band: "It's not too often that I get all these guys together on the same stage, but when it happens it always blows the roof off."

Two Australians and an Irish-descended Brit who hooked up in Nashville, The Greencards splice timeless folk lyricism with mettlesome jam-band attitude. Described by Rosanne Cash as 'a little island of Truth and Beauty in a sea of artifice and mediocrity', they released their third album, Viridian, in 2007.