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ceived an invitation to create an online performance for the Spanish Peaks International Celtic Festival based in La Veta CO.
From their isolation bubbles, the musicians quickly jumped on board this opportune ray of creative sunshine, and started collaborating with ideas for original compositions and arrangements of traditional Celtic tunes, using technology to record and send musical ideas to each other. They joined forces with Jeff and Eric and their first concert beamed out to hundreds of people’s pandemic bubble worlds, showing
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the five musicians in their own square on the computer screen performing “together” but actually thousands of miles away from each other. Word quickly got out in the festival community and more commissions followed. The Bow Tides was officially born and hasn’t looked back since – an unexpected silver lining to some challenging times.
In 2021 the five-piece band were thrilled to meet in person for the first time – only moments before taking the main stage at the Pittsburgh Irish Festival for their first live set in front of an audience, earning them accolades and two subsequent invitations to the annual festivities. They’ve been featured at festivals nationwide ever since with 2023 shaping up to be their busiest year yet. In September 2022, they took the leap and went into the studio in Chicago, and were thrilled to debut their first CD, Sailing On, to rave reviews, mixed and mastered by Hygienebased, engineering wizard James Tuttle.
A Bow Tides performance is packed full of gorgeous original compositions as well as a breadth of uniquely arranged traditional tunes from Ireland, Scotland and Galicia. The Lyons show on March 5 will also feature step dancers in stunning traditional dance costumes for a visual and audio feast for the senses, delivering uplifting music that evokes joy, with a feel and sound unlike anything else out there. Tickets are selling fast so get yours now at www.thebowtides.com.
