As jazz was a generation ago, American folk music is beginning—too late, as many enthusiasts insist—to be embraced and studied by the academic . . . study. In my opinion bluegrass music is one of the highest American art forms.” The concept of a bluegrass symposium at Harvard emerged years ago.

“Having a Grammy Award is a lot like having a degree from Harvard. You can go anywhere in the world and it carries a certain credibility,” said . . . dad really encouraged me to think of the banjo as an avocation, although they felt a lot better after the first time I took them to the Grammys. 

Omaha Performing Arts presents an exquisiteblend of Celtic, folk, and jazz when the Alison Brown Quartet takes the stage at the 1200Club in the . . . two years of working in public finance, Brown burst onto the national scene when Alison Krauss asked her to join her band Union Station in 1989.