NEWS ALERT: 5 Browns event canceled due to conflict

The 5 Browns event scheduled for Friday, February 13 has been CANCELED due to a scheduling conflict. We hope to reschedule for a future date. Any payments already received by the Friends of Music will be returned by mail. Tickets are still available to see The 5 Browns at Proctors Theater on Saturday, February 14.

Gregory and Desirae Brown on stage during The 5 Browns' December 2006 performance for students at Shaker High School.

January 30, 2009 - An internationally renowned family of pianists will return to North Colonie for a benefit performance to raise money for a Steinway grand piano for Shaker Junior High School.

What: An Evening with The 5 Browns
When: Friday, February 13 at 7 p.m.
Where: Shaker HS Auditorium
Tickets: $25

For information on how to order tickets, click on this link.

The 5 Browns is a musical group made up of five siblings - Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Desirae and Deondra - all of whom are piano prodigies. The group has toured the world, playing for audiences in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and Korea.

In December 2006, the group performed at Shaker High School and helped the North Colonie Friends of Music raise more than $25,000, which was put toward the cost of a Steinway grand piano for the high school.

On Friday, Feb. 13, the group's members will return to Shaker High School with their five Steinway grand pianos, this time to help Friends of Music raise money to buy a Steinway grand piano for the junior high school. Friends of Music has raised some of the money for the piano, but not all of it. The performance will raise money to be put

toward the balance of the piano's cost.

The program will include conversations with the group's five members. Opening the concert will be Shaker High's own piano talent, Allen Yu, who was one of just 25 students nationwide to receive a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Artists Award, which included a $10,000 scholarship. His piano performance was featured on the National Public Radio program "From the Top," which showcases America's top young classical musicians. The program is distributed to more than 200 NPR stations nationwide and reaches nearly 750,000 listeners each week.

The second opening act will be the wonderfully talented duo parnas. Madalyn and Cicely Parnas are 17- and 15-year-old sisters who play the violin and cello and are destined for a career on the worldwide stage.