The 5 Browns set to perform at the Keith on Wednesday

Everybody is going green on Wednesday in honor of Earth Day.

Well, not everybody, the Marshall Artists Series is going Brown, and in a big way.

At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the artists series will host The 5 Browns, a full house of Utah-raised piano virtuosos, siblings Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra and Desirae.

As seen on TV on "Oprah," "60 Minutes," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The View" and "The Martha Stewart Show," the rightfully titled "Fab Five" will be live in concert at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center in downtown Huntington.

Tickets are $45, $40 & $35 and youth tickets (age 17 and under) are priced $22.50, $20 and $17.50.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.marshallartistsseries.org or www.ticketmaster.com.

The twentysomethings, home-schooled kids that all began playing piano at about age 3 burst onto the scene when the oldest Brown, Desirae, began to plan for college and her year-younger sister Deondra decided to accelerate her education to be in school at the same time.

They got accepted into New York's prestigious School. A year later, they were joined at the school by Gregory, Melody, and Ryan, making the Browns the first family of five siblings ever accepted simultaneously.

While they were all trained as soloists, about five years ago they started playing together.

Signed to Sony BMG Masterworks, The 5 Browns have become one of the top classical groups, racking up three No. 1 Billboard classical charting CDs, "The Five Browns" in 2005; "No Boundaries" in 2006 and "Browns in Blue" in 2007.

With their fingers blazing on their Steinways, The 5 Browns are winning over a new generation to classical music.

They also have discovered that nearly a third of their audience has seldom, if ever, attended a concert of classical music, while another third is college-age or younger.

"One of our main goals was to get the younger people involved and the people who didn't know anything about classical music," Melody said. "About a third of the audience is usually college age or younger and so after the show we go out in the lobby and meet as many people as possible. And the younger kids are so sweet and say you have inspired us to keep practicing and that you've made classical music so much fun."

Also taking the music to a wider circle are popular YouTube videos of the siblings burning up the keys on the beach, on stage and in the studio and live shows that have gotten the Browns big ink in such publications as "The New York Times," "Parade" and "Entertainment Weekly."

Gregory said he thinks the popularity of the group has to do with the collective energy on stage.

"When we get on stage, it's just a lot of sound," Gregory said. "Five pianos can produce a lot of sound, and a lot of the times with the audience being a little younger there's a different energy than most classical concerts you will go to. We're lucky to have so much fun on stage every night."

Deondra said the group is quite aware that it takes really good arrangements, practice and patience to keep The 5 Browns musical ship on course.

"We have a couple different arrangers like Greg Anderson, a classmate from Juilliard and we've also worked with Jeffrey Shumway and a lot of great people who have been able to come up with some fabulous arrangements," Deondra said. "We want to make sure there's not a lot of doubles and to not have everybody playing the same melodies. We want them to be creative and to have the pianos do something different. We are pretty picky in making sure it's not a big raucous mess with five pianos. We make sure that if you don't have the melody you have to be in the background and take your turns coming in and out of the shadows. You have to leave your ego at the door. If it's not your time to shine -- back off."

The 5 Browns time to shine continues this spring.

The group just released in March a new live CD that's tucked into the group's first book called "Life Between the Keys: The (Mis)Adventures of The 5 Browns" from Dove Books.

Deondra said the Browns were hesitant about writing an autobiography since they are still so young. So they decided to write vignettes that describes life on and off the stage and their journey from a small town in Utah to the world's biggest stages and gigs with its best symphonies.

"We wanted to do it in a way that we felt comfortable," Deondra said. "We've got short vignettes, not in any chronological order, about growing up and Juilliard and all the different experiences. It's been a little like journaling and has been kind of fun to relive some of the experiences and to share the little stories about what got us to where we are."