Nashville, Tenn. — Alison Brown has achieved success in many areas: a Harvard graduate, record label co-founder and owner, mother, and, the role that most people know her in: banjo virtuoso. With her tenth release, The Company You Keep, the usually soft-spoken Brown is speaking up for independent music.

Alison Brown, award-winning banjo player and co-founder of Compass Records, has released a holiday album, Evergreen, a 10-track collection that includes “fun and imaginative re-workings of festive favorites,” according to the artist.

Joe Craven, fiddler, mandolinist and percussionist and an alumnus of the David Grisman Quintet, is the special guest throughout.