Alison Krauss Tickets

About The Alison Krauss

Signing a record deal with Rounder Records at age 14, her first release ?Too Late To Cry? came out when she was 16. A Grammy nomination came at 18, and she has gone on to win, collectively and individually, 10 Grammy awards. Since her teens, she has toured with Union Station, though the band membership has changed several times since she joined at the invitation of bassist and songwriter John Pennell.

b. 23 July 1971, Decatur, Illinois, USA. Krauss is unique among the new crop of female country singers that emerged in the 90s in that she leans strongly towards more traditional forms of country music, especially bluegrass. She began learning classical music on violin at the age of five and won her first fiddle contest at the age of eight when she took the honors in the Western Longbow competition. In 1983, at the age of 12, Krauss met singer-songwriter John Pennell, who introduced her to old bluegrass cassettes. By the end of the same year she had been awarded the Most Promising Fiddle Player (Mid West) accolade by the Society For The Preservation of Bluegrass Music. Pennell encouraged her to join his group Silver Rail when she was 14 years old. After two years with them she spent a year playing in Indiana group Classified Grass, with whom she recorded the demo tape that successfully attracted the attention of Rounder Records' head, Ken Irwin. She also made an appearance on the independent release Different Strokes alongside her brother Viktor Krauss, Bruce Weiss and Jim Hoiles.

Krauss has recorded albums of gospel songs with the Cox Family from Louisiana and her harmony vocals and fiddle playing can be heard to good advantage on Dolly Parton's Eagle When She Flies and Heartsongs and Michelle Shocked's Arkansas Traveler. She contributed "When You Say Nothing At All" with Union Station to the tribute album to Keith Whitley and also performed "Teach Your Children" with Crosby, Stills And Nash on Red Hot + Country. Krauss subsequently became the youngest member of the Grand Old Opry. On inducting her, Bill Monroe opined, "Alison Krauss is a fine singer and she really knows how to play bluegrass music like it should be played." In 1995, she received five nominations at the annual Country Music Association awards, though one had to be withdrawn when the organizers realized that the platinum-selling compilation Now That I've Found You: A Collection did not meet the criteria for Album Of The Year, which requires 60% new material. She did, however, win all other sections for which she was nominated, including Female Vocalist, Horizon Award, Single Of The Year (for "When You Say Nothing At All") and Vocal Event (her collaboration with Shenandoah).

Krauss' first new album with Union Station in five years, 1997's So Long So Wrong, proved to be another outstanding collection of songs that justified all the accolades. The melancholy solo collection Forget About It was followed by Krauss and Union Station's sparkling contributions to the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with band member Dan Tyminski providing the singing voice for George Clooney's character. The next Krauss and Union Station release, New Favorite, was buoyed by the remarkable commercial success of the soundtrack album. Legendary dobro player Jerry Douglas (b. Gerald Calvin Douglas, 28 May 1956, Warren, Ohio, USA) had been added to the line-up by this point. A double-disc live set was released the following year.

External links Official site (http://www.alisonkrauss.com/)