+ American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets from Thu 8/6 10:30AM through Sat 8/8 11AM The Grammy Museum is thrilled to welcome Grammy Award-winning musician and actor Steve Martin and Grammy Award-winning banjoist Alison Brown to the Museum's intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening discussing their recently released album, Safe, Sensible and Sane, their collaborative and creative process, and more, with a special performance. The debut collaborative album from Alison Brown and Steve Martin, Safe, Sensible and Sane is a body of work born from a shared enchantment with the singular beauty of the banjo. After scoring a No. 1 hit with the first track they ever wrote together (“Foggy Morning Breaking,” from Brown’s 2023 LP On Banjo), the two GRAMMY-winning musicians began dreaming up a batch of banjo-led songs built on Brown’s daringly inventive melodies and Martin’s idiosyncratic yet ineffably tender lyrics. As they explored the subtlest dimensions of the banjo’s tonality, the duo tapped into such eclectic inspirations as Brazilian music and Celtic folk, adding even more depth and color to the album’s exquisitely offbeat patchwork of stories. With guest appearances from luminaries like Jackson Browne, Vince Gill, Indigo Girls, and more, Safe, Sensible and Sane ultimately makes for a mesmerizing new turn in the evolution of banjo music. “With the banjo there are so many styles you can work with, but Alison and I both have an ear for its more melodic, melancholy aspect,” says Martin. “Whenever she’d send me a tune I always loved the process of fitting my lyrics to her melodies, because those melodies were all so unusual.” “One of the things I find most interesting about this project is that it could be perceived as a songwriter record rather than a banjo record,” Brown adds. “But to me it’s so deeply rooted in the banjo, because only another banjo player would hear the nuance in the melodies. Even if it’s not always obvious, the banjo is at the core of everything.