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From his rather unglamorous beginning as a street singer, Bryan Bowers has become a major artist on the traditional music circuit. He has redefined the autoharp and is also well known as a singer/songwriter. Bowers has a dynamic outgoing personality and an uncanny ability to enchant a crowd in practically any situation. His towering six-foot-four-inch frame can be wild and zany on stage while playing a song like “Dixie” and five minutes later he can have the same audience singing, “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” in quiet reverence and delight.
In 2006, Bowers’ landmark recording, Bristlecone Pine, was released on Seattle Sounds with distribution assistance by Plectrafone Records. Autoharp partner and close friend, Ron Wall, directed and created the recording. Several of Bowers’ friends from throughout the years offered musical assistance, including Tim O’Brien, Sam Bush, Mark Howard, Alan O’Bryant, Pat Enright, Dennis Crouch, Stuart Duncan and Ron Wall.
A feature story on Bryan in the Feb/March 2007 issue of Dirty Linen stated, “Like the venerable pine of the title track, autoharp virtuoso Bryan Bowers’ vocal style and instrumental prowess have grown in depth and genius over the decades...to listen to this recording is to experience all the colors and emotions of a lifetime. Truly Bowers’ finest work to date…”
For nearly four decades, Bryan Bowers has been to the autoharp what Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo. He presents instrumental virtuosity combined with warmth, eloquence, expression and professionalism. The Washington Times says, “This man makes more music from an Autoharp than you can imagine from a 12-string guitar and a harpsichord combined. He has more stage presence and charisma than any stage performer in recent memory.”
