Vince Brown

Vince Brown has been performing on guitar, tenor & 5- string banjo & uke in a variety of styles for over 40 years. He has played at venues & festivals, in pit orchestras and recoding studios around the world and now lives quite happily in his adopted hometown of Olympia, Washington playing regular gigs throughout the northwest.

Recent performance projects include western swing style take-off guitar with Red Brown & the Tune Stranglers; guitar & tenor banjo with the gypsy swing band Hot Club Sandwich; a swing duo project with vocalist LaVon Hardison; guitarist with the modern jazz/lounge group The Greta Jane Quartet; as well as pick-up work with small combos and big bands and regular solo performances on guitar and banjo.

Vince has also recently been host to "The Swing Set" a weekly series that has afforded the opportunity to play with some of the Northwests finest musicians including Neil Andersson & Michael Gray from Pearl Django; swing violin legend Paul Anastasio; Steel guitar masters Dan Tyak & Ben Bonham and the mistress of the ukulele Del Rey!

Awards

Member of The Greta Jane Quartet, voted "Best Jazz Band" for five years running by The Weekly Volcano.

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