The Florence County Museum will be hosting the Rod Brown Trio in concert this Saturday, March 28, 2015. The free concert will begin at 3:00 pm at the Florence County Museum Waters Gallery. This concert marks the last day of the 2015 Pee Regional Art Competition Exhibition. The public is invited to attend the concert and view art on exhibit by local artists.
Florence County Museum Waters Gallery, 135 South Dargan Street, Florence, SC3:00 pm, Saturday, March 28, 2015Admission is free to the publicContact: For more information please contact: Florence County Museum (843) 676-1200
About The Rod Brown Trio
From bossas to ballads, Rod lays down some smooth melodies on jazz standards using his palette of flute, clarinet, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones to paint the tunes’ themes on top of the chordal rhythms offered by Thomas McBratney on guitar and Jon Baltzell on electric bass.
Roderick Christopher Brown, 1995 Wilson High School Alumnus never stopped playing and performing even while obtaining a degree in Chemistry from Francis Marion University in 2006 and now while a working chemist with Clemson Extension. Rod has been playing the saxophone for 26 years. He started band in public school under the leadership of his first and most influential band director and mentor, Mr. Leon O. Harvey. During his schooling Rod earned chairs in the South Carolina All State Honor Band for Alto Saxophone and Oboe. Roderick currently performs with the Florence Little Theatre Orchestra, FMU Concert Band, and frequently with the Florence Symphony Orchestra. He serves as a musician at Maxwell Baptist Church in Florence as well as numerous other churches in the area. He played popular music with the Woodys.
Thomas McBratney graduated from West Florence High School in 1995. After high school, Thomas attended the College of Charleston where he earned a B.A. in music with a concentration in performance jazz guitar and jazz studies. While in Charleston, Thomas became a regular in the local jazz scene performing in his own group and with various jazz ensembles around town. After completing non-musical studies in Birmingham, Alabama, Thomas returned to Florence with his wife, Alice, in 2005. They have two sons, two dogs, three cats, and eight fish.
Jon Baltzell, is retired as director of academic computing and professor emeritus of FMU. For nearly twenty years he was the bass player and business manager of the recently dissolved local band The Woody in which Rod played saxophone for the last ten years. Earlier in Florence he performed with Kitty Waters’s Mood Swings and Melanie McMillan’s Melanie and The Bookends. Currently he plays with The Speakeasy Band.
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