Bowers featured in Folk School Concert

Folksinger, songwriter and autoharp master Bryan Bowers will be featured in a free concert at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. on Friday, August 10 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the Festival Barn,.but those attending are urged to park near Keith House or the Dining Hall and walk to the Festival Barn where there will be only a limited number of handicapped parking spaces available. In the barn there is hay bale seating, so audience members may wish to bring a lawn chair or blanket for comfort. Admission is free.

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 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.

Upcoming concert series performers at the Folk School include Lou Wamp and Swing Shift (Aug. 17) and Old Enough To Know Better (Aug. 31). The Friday night Folk School concert schedule is available on the world wide web at http://www.folkschool.org

For further information, call the Folk School at 837-2775 or 1-800- FOLK-SCH.