Bowstring

Barn Dance, Ceilidh, Concert & Festival Band

 

Bowstring bring together some of the most skilled and experienced performers in their field to form a band guaranteeing top quality. Whether it’s St.Patrick’s, St. Andrew’s, St. George’s Day or Americana Bowstring offer a full evening’s entertainment of music for dancing or songs for listening or a mixture of both, whatever the venue, at any time of year and anywhere in the world, be it indoors or outdoors, a private function, barn dance, ceilidh, concert or festival.

 

Chris Taylor
Melodeon; Banjo
Mandolin; Mouth Organ
 Multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor began his musical career by, unknowingly, copying early blues & country players by making guitars from oil cans, bits of wood & wire from brake cables. A practice still found in parts of Africa today. He spent the 1960's emulating blues musicians further by immersing himself in the music of the Mississippi Delta.
His influences are numerous from Robert Johnson to Richard Thompson, The Kinks to Christy Moore, from Jackie Daly to Sonny Terry.
After seeing the Boys of the Lough (with Dick Gaughan), Carthy & Swarbrick in the early 1970's, he began to take a different turn, including music from various parts of the British Isles.
Once his ears had been opened, he diversified further by including music from all over Europe along with Gypsy jazz. Chris continues to successfully mix these different styles in the different outfits he has played in. Anglo/Celtic with Gas Mark 5, The Oyster Band and Cajun/Country/Blues with Cajunologie, Redeye & Dindon Sauvage. In the late 1980's he played a season with Martin Carthy & Chris Wood at the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford upon Avon.
His part in the band Fiddler's Dram and their 1979 hit single “Day Trip To Bangor” recently earned him a place on the TV programme "Never Mind The Buzzcocks"!
As well as Guitar, Chris is an exponent of the Bouzouki, Mandolin, Button Accordion and Mouth Organ (both blues harp and the rare but brilliant Irish tin sandwich!)
Chris plays with enthusiasm and drive and consequently is in great demand by other musicians.
Chris is a powerhouse of a musician who can make a duo into a band and a band into something really special.

Ramona & Zinta Egle (as Camine) - have toured France, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and New Zealand and worked with Lori Anderson on the film Exodus directed by Penny Woolcock.
They have played at many Arts Centres around Britain including the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford

Quote from Mike Scott of The Waterboys
"Hi Zinta & Ramona, The cd arrived safely this morning. Thanks. I've had a listen to the 'Fisherman's Blues' version. Great vocals and I like the fiddle style.
That's a terrific moment at the end when you do the same wavery thing with fiddle and voice at the same time".

Zinta Egle

Guitar, Vocals
Ramona Egle

Violin, whistles
vocals
Martin Young

Cittern, Guitar, Vocals
 (Solo Folk Singer, Albion Morris) has worked in folk clubs, concert halls (Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall, QE Conference Centre, Snape Maltings) and at festivals (Sidmouth, Cheltenham, Chorley, Upton-upon-Severn, Towersey, Broadstairs) all over Britain. He has also worked abroad in Canada, New Zealand and Europe. He has performed at the home of Roger Taylor of 'Queen' and with Chris Taylor and Ramona at Davington Priory, the home of Bob Geldof. Radio- Capital & BBC. T.V. - Channel 4 with Show of Hands Film - with Albion Morris for British Film Institute
Ladies in Lavender feature film with Maggie Smith & Judi Dench/ TV Big Breakfast playing for Ant & Dec/ TV-Video "Memories of Home" Rose Marie with invited celebrity audience/ various radio incl. BBC radio 4/ various festivals incl: Sidmouth, Gosport, Return To Camden Town & Broadstairs/ Venues include; Hackney Empire, Albany Empire, Old Trafford, Birmingham Town Hall, The FRidge Brixton, The Swan Stockwell, The Hibernian Birmingham, The Conway Hall London, Half Moon Putney, The Ceilidh House Ullapool, The Weavers Stoke Newington, Carnglaze Caver Cornwall and umpteen others from from Scotland to Cornwall plus Galway, Ennis, Dublin, Cork and various other parts Ireland along with France, Belgium, Holland & Spain etc etc etc . Also played regularly in bands including members of The Pouges/Popes, 4 Men & a Dog, Alias Ron Kavana and Sin E.
Chris Sadler

Concertina, Guitar, Mandolin and vocals