Grace Bowers | Eric Clapton's Crossroads 2023 Guitar Festival
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2024
- Backstage at Eric Clapton's 2023 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Grace Bowers walks us through her vintage 1961 Gibson SG and tells us about performing at the Crossroads Festival and the impact of hearing B.B. King for the first time.
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Started in 1999 by Eric Clapton to benefit the alcohol and drug rehab facility he founded in Antigua, the Crossroads Festival brings together some of the best guitarists in the world for this very important cause. To learn more about the Crossroads Centre Antigua visit crossroadsantigua.org
Chapters
00:00 - Intro with Grace Bowers
00:27 - Grace’s Crossroads Guitar Festival Experience
00:54 - Grace Walks Us Through her 1961 Gibson SG
01:33 - B.B. King and the Blues: Grace’s Biggest Inspiration
02:12 - Grace Bowers Plays Robbie Robertson’s Gibson Les Paul
02:37 - Grace on “The Weight” and it’s Power to Unify the Masses
03:24 - Outro
Here we are in '24: "I heard BB King one day..." Legends live on forever. What an amazing young woman.
I feel so old, a lot of the music she’s playing, I have seen in concert during the 70’s, now this young girl has taken it to a whole new level, she’s definitely going places with her own style of playing.
Thank God for young people like this, keeping music alive.
I have a 17 year old granddaughter who while she's an artist, she's not a musician. But her demeanor reminds of her. I'm a guitarist for over 50 years. So I appreciate good musicians . Good luck my dear.
Sounds really good very very good
she gives me hope. I know I'm not alone in that sentiment.
Thank God we have young people like this to save the world
Wow, her playing is beyond her years!!! The blues will go on with youngsters like this!
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“Ain’t no 6 year old kid knows the true meanin’ of the blues”
Amen! Very excited for her and other young musicians like Kingfish! ❤
@@BradMaddox-vn7to What about it?
Not really
What a lovely & talented young woman with a great social consciousness &respect & love of music history. Someone to watch & support !
Our future is in good hands if we have people like Grace at the helm. Wow! I love her playing and her generosity of spirit. Go Grace!
She's an absolutely badass guitar player 🔥❤️🔥🤙
I first saw a video posted on Reddit of Grace playing guitar a couple years ago. I knew that she was talented back then but now she is phenomenal.
I truly hope she has an amazing career and I can't wait to start hearing original songs from her.
I was no where near that mature at 17. I love the fact that she knows her history and appreciates the legends of the blues, and plays P90’s. I look forward to hearing more from her.
Impressive for sure.... feel better about the future of real music... Kinda like a young Bonnie Rait comes to mind... BB's legacy lives on...
Hearing this young lady invoke B.B made my heart swell.
Love seeing an electric guitar being played with fingers instead of a pick, so cool 😎
" I heard B.B. King one day...."...that's THE phrase that summarises each and every rock 'n' roll trip ever taken.
I knew when she said she heard BB and that got her interested, she was gonna be a star. 17 and she's rockin a 61 SG already. That is so awesome. First time I ever heard of her. Wishing you a great long and successful career Grace. Just the fact that you mentioned BB, Carlos, and Joe tells me I'm a fan of yours already. Cheers young lady.
BB king lives on through this inspirational young woman. Hope she tours the UK at some point.
What a gifted young guitarist, plus such caring for the Covenant School to have immediately put together a benefit for them. She is a quality individual all around.
You are an amazing inspiration. At 17 to have the depth and soul of the blues gives this old picker some hope for generations to come. Peace be with you
Wowww Grace is such a naturally gifted guitarist, a breath of pure, fresh air and a grounded young lady. I sincerely hope she goes onto musical greatness and truly establishes herself, in the world 🌎 of blues, blues-rock music. 👏🤞🙏🤟🎸🌟
I've been following Grace for a while. It's awesome watching her get better by leaps and bounds. She was born for this. I swear I hear Roy Buchanan reincarnated sometimes.
I love her back story. When I first read it, I thought I was reading my own start with a guitar. Needless to say, my road took a much different turn, and I never found my potential. But I still love the guitar. And I think she is great.
Holly smokes, I remember Grace from Berklee's Five Week a year ago 😮
It is awesome that you got this opportunity and I am envious something I always wanted to do and how knowledgeable you are at 17 I am 62 I hope you follow your dreams and flourish. We need to keep the blues alive and always pay if forward as you just mentioned you did stay true to your heart and you will do great things. ❤
Wow! What a great player, I will definitely keep an ear out for your music. The future of new music is looking bright! Go for it!
You’re so awesome Grace! Great heart, rad guitarist!
Wow .. what a talent!
Kid for some reason, she will be your biggest winner.
The Les Paul sounded really good and when you said Santana you got my attention 👍🐝 and you are right about the blues
A fabulous and truly talented young gtr player! A stellar future awaits you, you are a most gifted and hardworking artist. 🎶🌟👍
Incredibly beautiful guitar tones !
WOW, I'm proud of your music tastes and your guitar heroes are mine too. I saw Santana when I was 13. My brother took me. I was already listening to the music he and my sisters listened to. My dad played folk and flamenco guitar and some classical. So us kids had broad tastes. I wish you lots of success and enjoyment in your career. Please watch out for the industry sharks. They have ruined many with drugs and pressure. Good luck 🍀
She's a special person and I expect I'll be hearing her music for a very long time.
Thank You.
Amazing Grace !!! 🎶🎶🎶✨️🙂
Just an old soul
What a talent.
She certainly is going to make her own path thru the Musical River. (Luv that she has studied the blues) It'll serve her well for years to come.
So cool to see the younger generation appreciate and carry on the tradition of the blues. I didn't pick up the guitar until I was 17, she is way ahead of the curve talent wise!
What an amazing young lady, she belongs to another time 😊
All the best to you! Graceful lady!
She's too cool ! She can play with the best keep it going ❤
I am so happy for you and excited that the emerging generation has so much talent and love for past interests (Blues, rock and roll, actually any music from the past, I love classical as well and the sound of horns and violins/fiddles etc) it is where we came from. Absolutely no doubt. I will be following 🙂
Your physical resemblance to Tal Wilkenfeld (Bass Phenom) is astounding. I hope I get to see the two of you play together some day.
“All things must pass” in the warm up 👍🏾 ❤
God bless your future, you me make cry with your passion 😊🥲😉✌✌✌🤘🤘
you're very fortunate to have that SG & Les Paul... Original Bluesman worked hard in the fields and farms - sang the Blues all week, but Church was Sunday morning...p Church music and Blues Creates Rock and Roll !
FABULOUS PLAYING FEEL & PHRASING !! !!
New fan looking forward to hearing more keep going and don’t stop.
This girl is very special. Guard her from all danger.
Blues is cool ! Anything you derive from that make your own !
She's an amazing person and guitar player😊
I am 62, my life is the Blues, happy to see the youth like Grace keeping Blues Rollin Along .
She's a very talented guitarist and she has a wise head on young shoulders, she is absolutely delightful.
Go kiddo, great playing Grace !! All the best with your career.
Great Grace play the blues and boogie 🎉❤
She has spider hands❤ crawling ever so elegantly on that guitar! And love that she is not playing with a pick!
She's phenomenal! Next greatest female player, IMO!
What an adorable, lovely, talented, classy young woman. I support you 1000%! ❤🎉❤
Got some sweet equipment. Nice that she has a purpose with her talent.
I stumbled upon Grace a few years ago on accident and was just blown away by the obvious talent and potential. It has been so fun to see her career progress and now take off. She is my favorite younger player these days. Go, Grace, Go!
Grace eres un ángel de la buena música sigue así y llegarás a estar junto a los grandes del blues
OHHHH MY GOD YOU ARE WONDERFUL...❤❤❤❤❤
This reminds me of when I was 13 and loved riding my bike. I rid it everyday. Then for three months straight it rained and rained. My brothers friend had left a guitar at our house a long time ago. I dug it out and knew only one thing. To tune it. I tuned it up and start plucking, my fingers didn’t know how to work. I started listening to music and finding the notes. i knew that chords were a thing and started teaching my self chords form nothing but a chord chart I found online. Within months I started writing and learning to record music on a free software called audacity. Very limited. I believe it’s mostly used for recording podcast.
My bothers had an older Lexicon audio interface they had bought years before and I dug it out and eventually found the software that came with it which was Cubase version 4.
Anyway ten years later and I was in Nashville in a band signed to a label. Endorsed by MTD guitars. Meeting celebrities almost every week. Going to number one parties.
Haven’t ridden a bike since. LOL
I am 72, I hope I get to stick around a little longer to watch Her really blazer A trail🤘🤘🤘⚘️⚘️⚘️
She's the real deal. Definitely going to keep my ear on her...
Her modesty and respect is alive and well.
I'm in love
This gives me hope. Saving Grace! :0)
I follow her on Instagram. The first time I heard her play I knew she was going to be the next great guitarist. I really hope to see her become that one day but at this rate it's inevitable.
GRACE!!!!👏🏻👏🏻🎸🎶🎵🤘🏼
This young lady is extremely talented and she will leave her mark on the music scene.
Wow, great player
Hermosa gitaRra tambìen quien toca🎸👌⚘️😊😊😊
Cool man i actually was watching her a few years ago on Reddit when live music was appreciated on the platform
Grace and Taj I can see making Phenomenal music together at some point! 👌😎🎸🏴🇬🇧
She was great playing onstage at the Nashville NYE show!
Hey! Fantastic talent + great personality. Up there with the masters ;) Wow!!! (from 72 years old guitarist LOL)
She rules!
Fantastic player , talent and beautiful a great package!
You have a great look and style kid, keep it up.
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Simply outstanding skills for an absolutely beautiful young woman, the hair is just wild! Best wishes Gracie Tear it up girl!
Love from Redding... 😎
Amazing girl
For just 17, this girl has got some crazy awesome equipment! Soldano, Boogie, Fender, Gibson? Man! Where did I go wrong in my younger days? Oh, yeah, right. I grew up in the 80's. That shit never happened back then. Totally Jelly! Worked all year as a dishwasher at 13 years old, to save up, and buy a Carvin 50W half stack. Man, times have changed. Best wishes to you Grace Bowers. Beautiful name. Beautiful face. Beautiful game! Just keep doing what you love most. You are in the scene. Best to you! Forever! XOXO!
Pretty sure they belong to Guitar Center and not her. But I suppose she might as well have some sort of sponsor deal.
Fantastic! You really know how to make an SG with P90's sing!
Most players search for the right tone forever and never quite succeed. How you found it at just 17 I will never know but please don’t change it cause you got it. ☮️
Me parece una chica muy sencilla y linda además de talentosa con esas guitarras q las toca de una forma especial las conoce tan bien guau
Toca muy bien m gustaría oírla en vivo
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Looks like you're going places, good for you, keep it up. Please don't get too starry-eyed with everything going on in your success, keep your head on straight and don't let anyone take advantage of you. Good luck.
Impressive! Kinda bummed I can't find any of her music to buy. Someone get this young woman a record deal!
She gets it. And has the talent to back it up. Thank god, for the sake of real music
I first heard her on Reddit livestream nailing Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marc Bolan/T.Rex, and Eric Clapton licks. She's been growing into her own I hope she find the mainstream success she deserves and not get shoved into a niche like so many of her blues contemporaries today.
Don't hold thy breath. I might be jaded at this point but I've seen far too many promising young female musicians sexualize themselves as soon as they get a stage presence and a record deal. It isn't hard to understand why as the ones who don't fade from the public view and the gigs dry up. Popular/Rock music isn't really the space for welcoming women to the table on their musical merit alone, that's more Jazz and Classical.
@@sercastamere9853might be different with grace considering she's transgender.
HUH??
Go Grace
Gosh. Love it!
Natural beauty 😳😳😳💋
Grace is Amazing....pun intended and literally
This young woman is an old soul
Yea girly, you are so badass!
I'm from the Bay Area as well.
Kinda cool I heard you on KZFR FM.90.1
Chico, California
When you come play here, I'm going to your show!
Love your style Si*STAR
💕Dream
She's so adorable.
She very much rrminds me of Derek Trucks. Wo the slide . Damn !
Brilliant to close her charitable even with "The Weight." How apropos!