Homestead Pickin’ Parlor^® Presents

 An Evening With

Bryan Bowers

Friday, January 12, 2007
8:00 PM

Armatage School Auditorium
2501 West 56th Street, Minneapolis

$ 13.00 in advance, $15.00 Day of Concert

Tickets Available Now at Homestead

Bryan's Web Site

WORKSHOP!!

  Bryan & and Homestead
Autoharp^© Teacher Karen Mueller
will hold an Autoharp© workshop on
Thursday, January 11, 2007 from 6-9 PM,
Also at the Armatage School, 
2501 West 56th Street, Minneapolis

No Autoharp® player of any skill level should miss this workshop.  Bring your instrument and a tape recorder.  Your musical life will never be the same.

Workshop Fee - $45.00

Reservations Recommended

6625 Penn Ave So
Richfield, MN  55423
(612)861-3308

For nearly three 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.

Bryan Bowers and the Autoharp© first collided some four decades ago and have been keeping each other company ever since. His relationship with Bluegrass audiences  extends back to the early 70’s when the Dillards and New Grass Revival took a liking to what they heard Bryan doing with his Instrument and saw to it that some of their audiences had a Chance to hear him. He’s bringing the ‘Mighty 36’ our way this month and we recommend that you not miss it.  Add to his Autoharp© virtuosity a lifetime of stories gathered by this road warrior and you’re guaranteed a most entertaining evening you should not miss.

His creativity and talent have won him induction into Frets Magazine's First Gallery of the Greats after five years of winning the stringed instrument, open category of the magazine’s readers' poll. This distinction put Bowers along side other luminaries, such as Chet Atkins, David Grisman, Stephan Grappelli, Itzhak Perlman, Tony Rice, Rob Wasserman and Mark O'Connor, recognized for their personal accomplishments. In 1993, Bryan was inducted into the Autoharp© Hall of Fame to stand only with Maybelle Carter, Kilby Snow, and Sara Carter.

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 quite reverence and delight.

A Flying Fish recording artist, Bryan’s music has been captured on five albums: “Home, Home on the Road”, “By Heart”, “For You”, “The View From Home”,  & “Friend for Life”. 

The Chicago Sun-Times said about Bryan “He plays the Autoharp® and when he picks up the instrument, the entire room changes…a very magical world, a music never heard before. 

Bryan simply says “I want to have a good time and I want people to have a good time.  I want the joy of bringing people together and communicating…If I can say it like I see it, I can bring happiness."

Karen Mueller won the 1986 International Autoharp Championship held at Winfield, KS. She has since performed for audiences internationally. She has three CDs to her credit; Clarity, Still Point, and Autoharp Gourmet. She is a published author having written Celtic Autoharp and having contributed to Dulcimer 2000 both published by Mel Bay Publications. Her Playing is also featured on two widely circulated anthology compact discs, Mountain Dulcimer II and Autoharp Legacy.

We are extremely proud to have Karen as a member of the Homestead Pickin’ Parlor teaching staff. She teaches at the West Bank School of Music as well.