Details: About the Artist Jimmy Bowskill just seems to fit the script of a modern day artist destined to play the blues. He burst onto the scene on B.B.King’s birthday of all times, a brand new B.B.Kid!! Inspired by the late, great Robert Johnson, Jimmy taught himself to play and sing by interpreting by sight and sound but in his own natural style. At the tender age of 11, Jimmy was invited to join Jeff Healey onstage, alongside his now mentors and bandmates, Jerome Godboo and Alec Fraser. Al Cross is the most recent addition and is donning the drum chair. Since being discovered in Southern Ontario a whirlwind of activity has been bestowed on Jimmy, including being voted the Canadian Indie Award’s favorite blues artist for 2003. He was also nominated for Maple Blues best new artist. His performances at major festivals such as The Montreal Jazz Festival and The Mont Tremblant Blues Festival as well as coverage on CTV’s Open Mike with Mike Bullard, CTV National New’s Success Story with Sandy Renaldo and CTV’s Canada AM have all featured his rise in popularity and blues stardom. City TV’s Breakfast Television also hosted the Jimmy Bowskill band as their musical guests, as well as The Toronto Show. Jimmy and his band will also be performing on ZeD TV, February, 2004 and making an appearance on the Easter Seals Telethon in March. Jimmy will also be featured in OWL Magazine for their May, “Who To Watch” issue. He’s being profiled by TV Ontario’s show called “VOX” (Voice of Teens), YTV’s Girls TV. CTV’s Balance TV and TVO’s Planet Parent. With both OWL Magazine, YTV and TVO centering around children, Jimmy is certainly taking “Blues In The Schools” to another level! Jimmy will also be featured on Cogeco Cable’s A&E special, which is scheduled to air in early February. He will be sharing the spotlight with other life-altering individuals. Jimmy’s debut CD “Old Soul” has been one of the top selling recordings for Festival Distribution, Canadianblues.ca and Iridescent Music. The CD is receiving airplay worldwide. Jimmy has been featured on CBC’s Metro Morning with Sonia Arab, CBC’s Sounds Like Canada with Shelagh Rogers and CBC’s Vinyl Café with Stuart McLean. So, how does he sound? Jimmy Bowskill may not see himself as a child prodigy, but when you are under the age of 18 a child you still are. However it is immediately abundantly clear after witnessing his live appearances that somehow an old soul thrives in this captivating young man’s child body. Jimmy is not your typical kid for onstage he is nattily attired as an old blues artist and the image fits him so comfortably in his threads. His savvy style commands your attention but his genuine true self engulfs you as he makes friends with his audience. He has confidence and stage presence way beyond his tender years and it seems an old bluesman’s lifetime of performing skills in his bag of tools. True to the timeless Delta Bluesmen of the past there is a deliberate low-tech aspect of Jimmy’s sound. His inner voice must be of an old-field song on a dusty, scratched 78 recording. You wonder while cast under his spell where someone so young can feel the blues so deep. His soul is not mimicked as he reels back, squints and grimaces as his voice covers the dynamic range of a blues holler back to a gentled vibrato whisper all in a moment so effortlessly. The boy has a genuine mojo soul going on deep inside that is just begging to escape. Jimmy is a very advanced and relaxed traditional acoustic blues guitar player. He has had stellar teachers along his way including sought after professionals such as Rick Fines and more recently Juno award winner, Jack de Keyzer. Not a stranger to other instruments, Jimmy also plays harmonica, penny whistle and has even tackled a Hammond B3 organ while on stage. Jimmy Bowskill’s future is bright with intense shades of blue.

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