Bryan Bowers (born August 18, 1940) is an American autoharp player. He was raised near Petersburg, Virginia. As a child, he would tag along with the field workers and gandy dancers and learned to sing old call-and-answer songs. In the late 1960s, Bryan took up the guitar, but it wasn't long before he encountered the autoharp. "I ran into a guy that played several instruments and could get the harp in good tune. It opened my eyes and my ears. I went out and got one the next day." Bryan relocated to Seattle, Washington in 1971 and played for coins as a street singer and in bars for the right to pass the hat. Once he had polished his technique, he headed east to DC, where The Dillards heard him perform at the Cellar Door and introduced him to bluegrass audiences in the area. His creativity and talent have won him induction into Frets Magazine's First Gallery of the Greats after five years of winning the stringed instrument, open category of the magaz

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