Peter Rowan Artist Profile
Peter Rowan
- Label(s): Appaloosa, Flying Fish, Rounder, Shanachie Records, Sugar Hill Records
- Date of Birth: June 4, 1942
- Sign: Gemini
- Place of birth: Boston, MA, US
- Website: www.myspace.com/peterrowan
Peter Rowan Biography
Peter Rowan (b. July 4, 1942 Boston, Massachusetts) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings. While in high school in 1956, Rowan formed the Tex-Mex group The Cupids, which became locally famous, self-releasing a single. In college he discovered bluegrass after hearing the Country Gentlemen and the Stanley Brothers. In 1963, he joined...