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Alison Brown Brings Her GroundbreakingBanjo Sound to The Jackson Theatre October 16

JONESBOROUGH, TN — GRAMMY Award-winningmusician Alison Brown will perform at The Jackson Theatre on Friday, October16, at 7pm.

Known as one of roots music’s mostinnovative banjo players, Brown has expanded the possibilities of theinstrument by blending bluegrass with jazz, folk, pop, classical and Latininfluences. Billboard praised her playing as having “a unique sonic signatureand an inescapable beauty,” while USA Today called her a “true ground-breaker”who is opening new possibilities for the banjo.

Brown began her musical career as ateenager in Southern California’s bluegrass scene before earning a degree fromHarvard University and an MBA from UCLA. After working as an investment banker,she left the financial world to pursue music full time and has since built acareer as a GRAMMY-winning musician, GRAMMY-nominated producer and co-founderof Compass Records Group.

Her work has received nationalrecognition from NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, The Wall Street Journal, The NewYorker and other major outlets. She has also appeared on programs including TheTonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The View.

Brown recently collaborated with fellowGRAMMY Award-winning banjoist Steve Martin on the album Safe, Sensible andSane. The project features guest appearances from Jackson Browne, Vince Gill,the Indigo Girls, Tim O’Brien, Jason Mraz, Della Mae and others.

Audiences can hear Alison Brown live atThe Jackson Theatre, located at 121 W. Main Street in downtown Jonesborough, onOctober 16 at 7pm.

Tickets are available at thejacksontheatre.com. 

The Met: Live in HD series has made the Met the world’sleading provider of alternative cinema content and the only arts institutionwith an ongoing global series of this scale. When the series launched in 2006,the Met was the first arts company to experiment with alternative cinemacontent. Since then, the program has expanded, with more than 33 milliontickets sold to date and robust attendance in five global cinema markets: theUnited States, Germany, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. In North America,weekend box office ratings also remain strong, often placing Live in HDpresentations—with only one showing—among the weekend’s top-grossing films. The2026–27 season marks the 20th anniversary of the Live in HD program. The Met:Live in HD series has increased accessibility to Met performances for audiencesaround the world. With a global average ticket price of $23, the series hasmade world-class performances accessible to millions of opera lovers eachseason.

 

Met artists and celebrity opera lovers serve as hosts forthe Live in HD series, providing background on the operas, introducing excitingbehind-the-scenes features, and conducting live interviews with stars, crew,and production teams. Tickets for the 2026–27 Live in HD season will go on salein the United States and Canada in July 2026, with international ticketingdates varying from country to country. Respective ticketing dates will beannounced separately by individual distributors.

 

 The Met: Live inHD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, theNeubauer Family Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is providedby Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD series is in partnership withRolex.

 

Within months of their initial live transmissions, theLive in HD programs are shown on PBS in the United States. The PBS series GreatPerformances at the Met is produced in association with PBS and the WNET Group.

 

For more information about The Met: Live in HD, visitmetopera.org/hd.

 

TwentyYears of the Met in Cinemas: An Anniversary Celebration

TheMetropolitan Opera celebrates two decades of The Met: Live in HD with aspecial onscreen presentation, hosted by Renée Fleming, featuring unforgettablemoments from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinaryperformances.  

 

Mozart

Cosìfan tutte

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young lovereturns in Phelim McDermott’s Coney Island–inspired production that sets theuproarious story at a 1950s boardwalk amusement park. Maestro Nimrod DavidPfeffer conducts. 

 

Verdi

Macbeth

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists, baritoneQuinn Kelsey and soprano Lise Davidsen, star as Shakespeare’s scheming couple ina powerful new production by director Louisa Proske. Met Music Director YannickNézet-Séguin conducts.

 

Saint-Saëns

Samsonet Dalila

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Saint-Saëns’s grand operatic take on the biblicaltale returns with mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina and tenor Clay Hilley in thetitle roles. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Darko Tresnjak’s epic production.

 

Puccini

LaFanciulla del West

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returnswith a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones. Soprano VidaMiknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, alongside tenorSeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson and Christoper Maltman as Jack Rance. MaestroKeri-Lynn Wilson conducts.

 

KevinPuts / Libretto by Mark Campbell

SilentNight

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera premieresat the Met, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce,when soldiers set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed thetrenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy. Debutingmaestro Dalia Stasevska conducts an evocative staging by James Robinson.

 

Massenet

Manon

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the irresistible titlecharacter of Massenet’s passionate drama, opposite tenor Matthew Polenzani as Manon’sidealistic lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, in Laurent Pelly’s breathtaking BelleÉpoque production. Maestro Yves Abel conducts.

 

Verdi

Otello

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Tenor Brian Jagde stars in the tour-de-force titlerole of Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean drama—one of the pinnacles of Italianopera—alongside soprano Ailyn Pérez as Desdemona in Bartlett Sher’s production.Michele Mariotti leads the full forces of the Met Orchestra and Chorus in theexhilarating score.

 

Wagner

Parsifal

Livefrom the Met in theaters: Wagner’s transcendent final opera returns in FrançoisGirard’s acclaimed production. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts acast of Wagnerian superstars, including tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role,mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as Kundry, and baritone Peter Mattei as Amfortas.

 

Bizet

Carmen (ENCORE)

Incelebration of 20 years of The Met: Live HD, the iconic 2010 performanceof Bizet’s masterpiece returns to cinemas, starring mezzo-soprano Elīna Garančain the title role and tenor Roberto Alagna as Don José. Met Music DirectorYannick Nézet-Séguin, in his debut season, conducts Richard Eyre’s belovedproduction.

 

Mozart

TheMagic Flute(ENCORE)

TheMet’s abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute madehistory in December 2006 as the first-ever Live in HD transmission. Thishistoric performance of Julie Taymor’s magical production returns to cinemasthis holiday season for a special encore presentation.

 

Puccini

Tosca(ENCORE)

Incelebration of 20 years of The Met: Live HD, the electrifying 2024performance of Puccini’s Tosca returns to cinemas, starring soprano LiseDavidsen in the title role, tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, andbaritone Quinn Kelsey as Scarpia, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguinon the podium.

 

 Tickets available at thejacksontheatre.com. 

Hocus Pocus(1993) 

Family Series 

Three 17th-century witches, hanged for their murderouscrimes, are resurrected on Halloween in modern-day Salem by an unsuspectingboy, who must now figure out how to get them back in the ground.

Rated PG

Running Time 95 minutes