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Concert at V du V Wines! Bryan Bowers with Caridwen Irvine-Spatz and Greg Spatz
Bryan Bowerss legendary creativity and talent have won him numerous awards, including an induction into Frets Magazines First Gallery of the Greats, after five years of winning the stringed instrument open category of that magazines readers poll. This distinction put Bowers alongside other luminaries, such as Chet Atkins, David Grisman, Stephan Grappelli, Itzhak Perlman, Tony Rice, Rob Wasserman and Mark OConnor. In 1993, Bryan was the first living member inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame alongside such greats as Maybelle Carter, Kilby Snow, and Sara Carter. In 2003, Bryan organized and co-produced Autoharp Legacy. He brought together 55 autoharp players and created the definitive three-CD set on autoharp music. In addition, Bryan Bowers critically acclaimed recordings on Flying Fish/Rounder Records are: The View From Home, Home, Home On the Road, By Heart, Friend For Life and For You. Of his more recent recording, Bristlecone Pine, Dirty Linen says: 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 decadesto listen to this recording is to experience all the colors and emotions of a lifetime.
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. Bryan 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.
For over five 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.
Greg and Caridwen Spatz have been playing music together since first meeting in 2000 as instructors at the British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop in Sorrento BC. Founding, core members of the celebrated Washington State acoustic world-music quartet Mighty Squirrel (http://www.reverbnation.com/mightysquirrel) they are known as well for their stellar, individual fiddle work with the ever popular bands John Reischman and the Jaybirds (Greg) and Prairie Flyer (Caridwen). They have been teaming up with Bryan Bowers for concerts throughout the region for the last 5 years. Their unique musical flexibility and versatility are the perfect complement to Bryan's emotive singing, storytelling and always amazing autoharp playing
A concert featuring their own unique talents will showcase fiddle and twin-fiddle playing from a gamut of styles Celtic, eastern European, French Canadian, old-time and bluegrass but highlights most of all Caridwens uniquely haunting and multilingual vocals. She has been hailed as having a voice made for Celtic musiclyrical, etherealexpressive, flexible and utterly charming (Audiophile Audition) and she is just as at home singing in Gaelic or English as she is in French, Yiddish or Ladino. Backed by Gregs inimitable knockout bouzouki stylings Just a phenomenal example of what can be done with the instrument! says Nashville Public Radios Dave Higgs the results are mesmerizing. By turns moving, uplifting, spooky, enchanting.
Expect all of this and more at a concert featuring these two northwest folk maestros together!
Event details: Sept. 30, V du V Wines, 12 South Scott Street, Spokane 99202.
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LocationV du V Wines (View)
12 Scott Street
Spokane, WA 99202
United States
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