Rowan & Rice to Appear During IBMA Fanfest
On Saturday, October 29, 2005, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice will perform at Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, TN. Grammy-award winning musicians Rowan and Rice recently recorded their first full-fledged collaborative album You Were There For Me featuring Rowan's sublime vocals on ten of his original compositions. Acoustic guitar virtuoso, Rice provides remarkable instrumental work, which evokes, frames and enhances the emotions of each song.

Peter Rowan's career has spanned from Sea Train to Old & In the Way to numerous solo and ensemble projects with Don Edwards, David Grisman, Richard Greene and others. He is a soulful singer and a poignant songwriter. He began his professional career playing guitar, singing lead vocals and co-writing as a member of the Bluegrass Boys, led by the founding father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. He embarked on a well-received solo career in the late '70s, releasing such diverse and critically acclaimed albums as Dustbowl Children and Bluegrass Boy, as well as much-admired collaborations with ace Dobro player Jerry Douglas, Flaco Jimenez, and his brothers Christopher and Lorin Rowan.

Rice, a veteran of Bluegrass Alliance, J.D. Crowe's New South, the David Grisman Quintet, the Tony Rice Unit, the Bluegrass Album Band, the Rice Brothers and Rice, Rice, Hillman and Pedersen, is arguably the finest flat-picking guitarist of all times. With his signature subtle touch, beautiful tone, amazing speed and imaginative phrasing, Rice has inspired guitarists far and wide for decades, as both a peerless lead player and the quintessential rhythm player. His inventive syncopation encompasses many acoustic music genres in addition to bluegrass, including jazz, blues, classical, folk, and swing, as is evident in his numerous solo and collaborative recordings. Revered as perhaps the single most important bluegrass guitarist alive, Rice has recently revived the illustrious Tony Rice Unit to craft the non-traditional, jazz-tinged "spacegrass" with which he is identified.