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Acoustic guitar and voice with the occasional harmonica.
Biography
Owen Plant is a Jamaican-born acoustic troubadour out of Boston who can be found playing in clubs, colleges, and cafes and street performing in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. (from Vermont and Key West to Arizona, L.A., and San Francisco). Owen's music often features reggae against a backdrop of the classic storytelling singer/songwriter. He is influenced by such artists as James Taylor, Jack Johnson, Cat Stevens, Sting, and Bob Marley, and his diverse cultural and musical background gives Owen a unique sound that impresses and delights fans and industry folks alike.
Owen's musical development began at age 7 with classical piano lessons and a children's performance group, where he was taught African and Caribbean rhythms on the congas. The Children's Workshop, as it was called, toured the country playing traditional Jamaican and American pop songs. He first picked up the guitar in 1995 and within days had penned his first song. Owen writes songs with powerful, heartfelt lyrics that bounce between different genres and languages while being infectious and universally appealing.
Owen Plant's music draws great strength from a troubled past as his lyrics and poetry dig deep into human suffering but also embrace hope and redemption. He takes great pride in participating in the Boston/NYC Improbable Players, a traveling acting troupe of recovering addicts that focuses on drug and alcohol awareness education. He finds it both personally fulfilling and artistically inspiring and is in the process of incorporating his music into their repertoire.
Before embarking on a solo career in 2001 with the release of his EP "This is the One," Owen Plant fronted the critically-acclaimed band Shake Senora and produced one album with them. He has since released two additional albums - the live "Back on Earth" and a full-length studio CD, "Rock Just a Little. He has become a mainstay at Club Passim, Cambridge's legendary folk venue that was instrumental in the careers of singers like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and his March 2006 performance there drew a sold-out audience of 220. He was accepted to the highly competitive street-performing program at Faneuil Hall, one of Boston's most famous attractions, and regularly plays there for tourists and local fans. Outside of the East Coast, he's hit the pubs and streets of Dublin, London, Liverpool and Paris. Owen Plant is rapidly expanding his fanbase with shows on the West Coast and in Canada, and plans to accept a return invitation to play Western Europe again in 2007.
http://www.owenplant.com
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