Recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist's Grant
Artists' Fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Grants are awarded in 16 artistic disciplines, with applications accepted in eight categories each year. Since the awards began in 1985, NYFA has awarded over $22 million to over 3,688 artists. In 2007, NYFA awarded 122 Fellowships to 124 artists, with two of them working in a collaboration.
Rowe Tours the UK!
"Congratulations on an absolutely fantastic CME UK tour 2005. All three bands were fantastic. Caught the Aspinall (2) & Greyhound shows, unreal...!! Bring them back if you can!"
2007 (Finalist) Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition
"...when he hit the first chord on his guitar it all came back to me really fast: Oh my God!....HE doesn't look like Barry White at ALL…he is NOT going to break out with a voice like—ohmygodhejustDID!"
Best Male Vocalist 2007
"As thick and sweet as molasses, Sean Rowe’s baritone is one of those rare singing voices that will leave you forever changed. Like Al Green, Van Morrison, or Gil Scott-"Heron at their best, this is deep soul you’ll feel right down to the tips of your toes, and, uh, other nether regions."
"[Rowe has] the grainy, coarse, pulverized and yet full and lumbering voice of a blues singer or an understudy of Tom Waits mixing with the slick, agile, lyrical folk rocking command of a soft-spoken young urban singer/songwriter."
"27 is a lightning bolt of ingenuity. I personally play Sean's music in between Ella, Roy Hargrove, and Nina Simone; between Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, and Coltrane."
"Rowe has the uncanny ability in live performance to mimic a 3-piece band."
