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About Me

Check out recent reviews and press at www.thebowmansmusic.com and www.myspace.com/thebowmans** ALL dates are posted at MYSPACE.COM/THEBOWMANS.**..... Sarah Bowman is a classically trained musician who grew up in an environment of singer songwriters and protest folkers due to the convenient combination of her parentsâ€™ vastly different musical tastes. She started performing her own songs with her twin sister at the age of 14, and had a regular gig at the local Java Hut in Davenport Iowa during her high school years. Sarah decided to leave her hometown to pursue a career in classical music. She has a bachelors degree in cello performance and a masters certification in vocal and general music education. Sarah performed as a member of the Baltimore Symphony chorus for two seasons under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov, Bobby McFerrin and others. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------Sarah was inspired to cross over from classical cello playing into the world of indie folk due to her appearance with Scottish songwriting legend Alexi Murdoch in Baltimore in 2002. She then sat in with Baltimoreâ€™s hottest funk bands The Octonauts, The Financial Group and recorded with the intricately sophisticated instrumental math rock group Dark Water Transit. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------After completing four years as a choral and orchestral director and instructor in the Baltimore County public schools, Sarah decided to move to New York City to become a performing and recording artist. Sarah quickly became a fixture on New Yorkâ€™s Anti-Folk scene as a solo artist and guest cellist, sharing the stage with more than two dozen of the hottest up and coming artists at the time. Among these artists are Nicole Atkins and the Sea, Charles Zerner, Lowry, Brook Pridemore, Kris Gruen and Ian Thomas. She can now be found listed in the credits of several of the anti folk records released by her friends over the last three years. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------Sarah is currently performing all over Europe and the US with her own group, The Bowmans and is performing as cellist and singer with the critically accalimed goth rock cello outfit Rasputina. The Bowmans released their first record, Far From Home in 2006 with Mother West Records in NYC. The record was the best selling album on the antifolk.net online store for over six months after its initial release.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/12/2004
Band Website: thebowmansmusic.com
Band Members: Sarah Bowman - vocals, guitar. Claire Bowman -vocals........ **New Amoeba Video**http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/videos/tunng.html
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Influences: Gillian Welch, Allison Krauss, Patty Griffin, Tom Brousseau, Springsteen, Avett Brothers, Emmylou, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Buddy and Julie Miller, Billie Holiday, CASH, Tom Petty, Etta James, Brahms, Debussy, Palestrina, LACH, Ian Thomas, JAYMAY, Nicholas Webber, Debe Dalton, Nicole Atkins, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Claire...
Sounds Like: I've heard everything from a female Tom Waitts to Gillian Welch (female!) and a tweaked out Norah Jones or a strangely swingin songster... I'm honored and flattered and confused. I want to be the next Ian Thomas. No shame.
Record Label: Mother West
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The E-U for M-E.

It's raining on a night off in Bern, Switzerland. The bells are ringing outside the window to my left, the one that is permanently propped open for the cat to wander in and out. I'm reflecting- again....
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:47:00 PST

What Winter Was This Year

I never knew this before- but I can't run from winter. I tried. Winter is a season that climbs from within... climbs and then drains and then departs. It's probably colder in this basement corner room...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:21:00 PST

London, LA, Miami, Memphis, NY

I can't sleep on planes. If you are ever around me when I am about to go on a tour you know that about me. London seems like a dream to me upon the day of my return.My friend Charles reminds me that I...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:51:00 PST

You must have amazing powers

I have always wondered and dreamed but never thought of such a thing in any REAL sense, but all of YOU have been so good to us, and now this is possible.Paste's people LOVED our msuic, so now Claire a...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:56:00 PST

The Photo Masters

I tried several times to add the names of the photographers to the captions of the photos. I checked today, and for some reason the captions don't show. SO, I want to thank Chris Reibschlager in Kansa...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:32:00 PST

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!

Thank you, you wonderful fans who bring cameras! I went searching today for Halloween pics (because we all forgot our cameras and depended on your cameras....) and found much mroe than I ever dreamed!...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:29:00 PST

Seriously?

I guess you can never take me too seriously. I can't take myself very seriously, althugh I can't help but to feel so strongly about something in the moment that the thought is born! What am I going o...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:52:00 PST

Leaving time

I mean it is leaving time, once again. I have been living in the peace and quiet of the country, sitting under the stars each night (going to bed around 9 or 10) and waking with the sun and the sounds...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:07:00 PST

Nothing

I have received some requests for the lyrics to one of the new songs we have been performing on the last tours. I appreciate your interest in what we do so so much, and Claire and I are so happy to ha...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:17:00 PST

You were amazing!

There is always a reason to thank new yorkers for coming to shows... all season it has been for coming out in the cold, in the snow and ice, or coming so early or so late or for staying so long... Las...
Posted by Sarah Bowman on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:05:00 PST