Infos:
James Bar Bowen? Who?
I am an acoustic folk-punk singer-songwriter, guitarist and story-teller. I have performed my songs all over the world (as far away as New Zealand, as near to home as my living room). I play mostly my own self-penned songs, and also run songwriting and performance workshops.
In recent times, I have played squats, radical bars, pubs and clubs as well as squatted trailer parks and anti-fascist benefit and anarchofolk gigs and festivals across England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Austria and the Balkans. In June 2014 I toured the USA (Maryland, West Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California) with Ryan Harvey (though this was cut short by a car accident in Eastern California), and March/April 2016, I gigged in New York City, Delaware, Pittsburgh and New Jersey, USA (along with Johnny Campbell and numerous other great musicians). I am always on the lookout for interesting and unusual gig opportunities.
I run songwriting and performance workshops, believing wholeheartedly in a DIY ethic coupled with a strong professional attitude as a way to develop a new, independent and original music beyond the confines of the throwaway pop cultures so prevalent in the mainstream.
I have a number of DIY-recorded albums, most recently “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” (2012), “Heresy and Hearsay” (2011), and EPs “Brass Tracks” (2012), “A Normal Day” (2010) (as well as radical teatowels and other fairly traded, non-plastic ‘merch’). I have performed with many luminaries of the radical folk and punk scenes (I could drop names here, but I won’t!) I am always looking for new and interesting places to play for new and interesting audiences.
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Jacopo de Nicola:
Italian born, Philadelphia based, singer songwriter Jacopo De Nicola mixes Old and New World influences into a sophisticated sonic cocktail. Expanding the tradition of the Italian Cantautori, Jacopo charms listeners with infectious upbeat tunes as well as introspective ballads and protest songs. His eclectic repertoire is propelled by a rhythmic Gypsy/World pulse and punctuated by virtuosic kazoo melodies that have become a signature of his live performances. De Nicola performs internationally as a solo artist and in the United States with his gypsy-rock band The Late Saints.
