Peter Rowan

Peter Rowan is an multi-award winning American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings. A major cult figure among progressive bluegrass aficionados, Grammy-winning roots artist Peter Rowan participated in a number of adventurous projects in the late '60s and '70s before embarking on a highly productive solo career in the '80s. His long list of bands and collaborators includes Earth Opera, Seatrain, Muleskinner, Old & in the Way, the Rowan Brothers, Rowan & Greene & the Red Hot Pickers, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Don Edwards, and Flaco Jiménez, among many others.

In 1997 Rowan received a Grammy Award for his contributions to the bluegrass compilation True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe. The album won for Best Bluegrass Album that year. He has also received six Grammy nominations throughout his career.

Rowan received the Bluegrass Star Award, presented by the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation of Dallas, Texas, on October 20, 2012. The award is bestowed upon bluegrass artists who do an exemplary job of advancing traditional bluegrass music and bringing it to new audiences while preserving its character and heritage