Brown was one of the primary singers and songwriters for the alternative rock band Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s and 1990s. When that band broke up, he continued performing as a duo with his Bourbon bandmate Kate Fenner. Brown has accompanied dozens of notable musicians on stage, including a six-month stint as a member of Barenaked Ladies in 1998 filling in for Kevin Hearn while Hearn battled leukemia.
He is also a social justice activist and the founder of the Pros and Cons Program bringing recording arts to prisons and creating musical works for charities. The Pros and Cons Program has become internationally recognized as groundbreaking in fields of restorative justice and inmate mentorship, with the support of The David Rockefeller Fund. Brown recorded an album with the prisoners called Postcards from the County which Exclaim! described as “inescapably honest and sincere”.
Brown has recently launched Wolfe Island Records as a home for the prison music and the many artists he produces and collaborates with, including Fenner, Suzanne Jarvie, David Corley, One River, The Mermaids, Hadley McCall Thackston and the Stephen Stanley Band. In 2017 he released a new solo album Pacem. PopMatters premiered his first single, “Keeper of the Flame”, and Huffington Post raved that “Pacem is one of those albums that works on the listener from the inside out.”
Brown currently lives in Wolfe Island where he tours solo and performs with local musicians in a band called Open Hearts Society.
Catch Brown Hawkins Stanley on tour this spring!
Brown Hawkins Stanley SHOWS SPRING 2023:
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – Palasad Social Bowl – London Ontario
London, ON
Palasad SocialBowl 777 Adelaide Street North
London ON N5Y 2L8
(519) 645-7164
w/special guests The PairsTICKETSINFO
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – THE MULE SPINNER – HAMILTON
Hamilton, ON
The Mule Spinner 11 Landsdowne Ave
Hamilton ON L8L 6N3
(519) 774-1218
w/special guest Lori YatesTICKETSINFO
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – OXFORD PENNANT ROOM – BUFFALO
Buffalo, NY
Town Ballroom 681 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
W/ special guest Greg SmithTICKETSINFO
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE – NYC
New York, NY
Parkside Lounge 317 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 673-6270
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – BIG WRENCH – BROOKLYN NY
Brooklyn, NY
Big Wrench 264 Hoyt St.
Brooklyn, NY
917-375-1574
Guest TBAINFO
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – REDBIRD LIVE – OTTAWA
Ottawa, ON
Redbird Live 1165 Bank Street
Ottawa ON K1S 3X7
w/ special guest GravenTICKETSINFO
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – JETHRO’S – PETERBOROUGH
Peterborough, Ontario
Jethros 137 Hunter Street West
Peterborough Ontario
w/ special guest Rocky RobertsTICKETSINFO
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – SAM’S PLACE – PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY
Prince Edward, ON
Sam’s Place 3038 County Rd. 3
Prince Edward ON
w/ special guest Liner.TICKETSINFO
BROWN/HAWKINS/STANLEY – Longboat Hall – Toronto
Toronto, ON
Longboat Hall 103 Dovercourt Road
Toronto ON M6J 3C2
(416) 792-1268
w/ special guest Liner.TICKETSINFO
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