An Evening with Greg Brown

Friday, April 1, 8 p.m.

Fargo Theatre, 314 Broadway N.

Iowa folk musician Greg Brown’s career has taken him from coast to coast. He quit the University of Iowa to move out East, where he played a weekly gig at Gerde’s Folk City in New York. A year later, he was in Los Angeles ghostwriting for Buck Ram. When he returned home to Iowa he began a string of solo releases before starting Red House Records with St. Paul schoolteacher Bob Feldman in 1983. The label would become one of the nation’s most successful independent folk labels. His 1986 album “Songs of Innocence and Experience” set the poems of William Blake to music and his 1989 album “One Big Town” earned him an Indie Award from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors for Best Adult Contemporary Album.