Doc at 103 – tribute concert in Charlotte
Jack Lawrence and Peter Rowan perform for Doc Watson’s 103 birthday – photo © Vivian Hopkins If Doc Watson was still living, he would have turned 103 today. This past Sunday night, Jack Lawrence, Doc’s picking partner for 27 years, along with Peter Rowan and a host of friends, celebrated the guitar guru with a […]
Wyatt Ellis studio visualizer video with Peter Rowan
Wyatt Ellis has been getting a lot of mileage from his current single, Winds of Rowan County. He’s released it as a double-side, 45 RPM vinyl single, backed with Bill Monroe’s Memories of You, also available through the popular download and streaming services. The combination of these two artists, at the opposite ends of their […]
Peter Rowan accepts Lifetime Achievement Award at Folk In Fusion
Anna Kline, Peter Rowan, and Alison Brown as Pete accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award Lifelong bluegrass icon Peter Rowan accepted a Lifetime Achievement Achievement Award last night at the kickoff concert for Ireland’s Your Roots Are Showing conference, Folk In Fusion. The show was held at the INEC Arena in Killarney, where Rowan performed along […]
Winds of Rowan County from Wyatt Ellis, with Peter Rowan
15-year-old mandolinist and songwriter Wyatt Ellis rang in 2025 with the release of Winds of Rowan County, a double-sided, limited-edition 45 RPM vinyl single, featuring Wyatt alongside music icon Peter Rowan. Like an instant classic, Winds of Rowan County sounds like you’ve heard it before. About halfway through the opening instrumental, Peter’s vocal floats over […]
Peter Rowan to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Ireland’s Folk Conference
Your Roots Are Showing – Ireland’s Folk Conference has announced that they will be giving their first ever Lifetime Achievement in Music Award to Peter Rowan. Rowan will accept this award for his five decade career in bluegrass, Americana, and folk music during the 2025 conference’s kickoff event on January 14 in Gleneagle, County Kerry. […]
Mescalito Riding His White Horse by Mike Fiorito
Mike Fiorito, who has become a regular contributor here at Bluegrass Today, has written an unusual and very interesting book, based on his relationship with bluegrass singer and songwriter, Peter Rowan. The title, Mescalito Riding His White Horse – Inspired by the Musical Adventures of Peter Rowan, perfectly describes the slim volume. Not a biography […]
Calling You From My Mountain – Peter Rowan
Borne from previous years flush with uncertainty and strife, Peter Rowan's remarkable new album, Calling You From My Mountain, on Rebel Records, finds the legendary bluegrass standard-bearer and erstwhile musical pioneer touching on topics that deal pointedly with today's troubling circumstances. Rowan and his band — Chris Henry (mandolin, harmony vocals), Max Wareham (banjo, harmony vocals), [...] Peter Rowan talks Calling You From My Mountain, his new bluegrass record
Photo of Peter Rowan by Amanda Rowan This article/interview is a contribution from Mike Fiorito, a free lance music writer, Associate Editor for Mad Swirl Magazine, and a regular contributor to the Red Hook Star Revue. Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Peter Rowan has been reinventing himself and acoustic American music for more than six decades. He [...] Happy Birthday Peter Rowans!
Every year about this time, beneath the West Marin sky, Peter Rowan puts on a Bluegrass BBQ birthday bash for fans, friends, and family to stop by and eat, drink, and pick. Peter’s birthday is on July 4, but this year the party was on July 5, as always at the fabled West Marin bar [...] Rebel releases second single from Peter Rowan
Rebel Records has released a second single from their new Peter Rowan album, Carter Stanley's Eyes. This time it's the title track, The Light In Carter Stanley's Eyes, which Pete wrote about a visit he took with Bill Monroe to say goodbye to Stanley when he was slowly dying from cirrhosis of the liver in 1966. [...] 