Mason Brown

A transparent Mason with a 1913 Gibson L-1 and a chainsaw sculpture

Photo by Gehrig Fry

Mason Brown's voice, guitar, banjo, and viola d a gamba can be heard in the Kansas City area and elsewhere. His recently completed solo album, When Humans Walked the Earth (buy it at CD Baby), includes traditional and original songs and tunes, and performances with Randal Bays, Katäri Brown, Ed Caner, Connie Dover, Mark Dudrow, Doug Goodhart, Peter Halter, Gari Hegedus, Roger Landes, Tobias Roberson, Chipper Thompson, and Ben Wright.

Mason's previous album (with Chipper) was Am I Born to Die. He has also worked with Charlene Adzima, Turlach Boylan, Kevin Buckley, Kelly Dougherty, Mike Dugger, Michael Fraser, Marian Funk, Jed Marum, and Nathan Pellerin, and has instructed guitar and banjo at ZoukFest.

Sounds and Sights

Mason's YouTube account, with video of sessions and performances from Mason's recent (March and April 2008) stint at Dollywood
Mason and Doug playing "Devil in the Strawstack" (MP3)
Mason (with Brian Fleming on bodhran) playing the Jed Marum song "The White Cockade" (video)
Pictures of Mason performing (in April of 2007) with Glen Road in Dollywood

Mason performs (almost) every Saturday from 3 to 6 in the afternoon at O'Malley's Pub (540 Welt St, Weston Missouri). He also has a MySpace profile. He can be contacted at this email address.