Michael Bowers

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Michael Bowers is a singer/songwriter who lives in Alexandria, Virginia. He tours nationally and performs solo as well as with his spouse, Siobhan Quinn, formerly of Troy, New York. Bowers was a finalist in the prestigious 2005 and 2007 Kerrville New Folk competition and a 2006 South Florida Folk Finalist. Both of these national competitions are among the top recognitions in the singer/songwriter community. In 2007, along with Quinn, he was recognized as an Emerging Artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, an internationally renowned festival that occurs every July in New York state.

His first recording "Angel on My Shoulder" was referred to as "folk with an attitude" and it received significant airplay and acclaim in several European countries, including Ireland, England, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Sweden, and across the continent through the European Broadcast Corporation. Additionally, it received airplay across Australia. His live shows have been frequently referred to as "urban campfire music." His second album, produced by Tom Prasada-Rao, has received significant airplay in the U.S., in addition to his previous European airplay, and was positively reviewed in Sing Out! Magazine. He has had songs covered and sung by well known artists Tom Kimmel and Cary Cooper on Cooper's album, Gypsy Train.