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clarebowenweb · 3 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2021/02/news-clare-joins-cameo/

News: Clare Joins Cameo! #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

Clare has joined Cameo!!

Cameo is the leading marketplace connecting fans directly with tens of thousands of pop culture personalities in the form of customized video messages, live video calls and direct messages. Founded in March 2017 by Steven Galanis, Devon Townsend, and Martin Blencowe, Cameo’s mission is to enable the most personalized and authentic fan connections on earth.

You can buy a personal video from Clare for yourself or a loved one. Buy a video on cameo!

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clarebowenweb · 4 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2020/10/photos-hungry-ghosts-gallery-update/

Photos: Hungry Ghosts Gallery Update #clarebowen #HungryGhosts

I’ve added HD screencaps of Clare from her recent appearance on the Australian mini series Hungry Ghosts as well as stills and promos and such. I hope you enjoy!

Hungry Ghosts – Posters Hungry Ghosts – Promotional Hungry Ghosts 1×01 – Screencaps Hungry Ghosts 1×01 – Stills Hungry Ghosts 1×02 – Screencaps Hungry Ghosts 1×03 – Screencaps Hungry Ghosts 1×04 – Screencaps Hungry Ghosts 1×04 – Stills

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clarebowenweb · 4 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2020/01/photos-nascar-cup-series-awards-nascar-night-at-the-opry/

Photos: NASCAR Cup Series Awards + NASCAR Night At The Opry #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

Happy New Year! I apologize for the lack of updates. I was out of town for a few weeks.

I’ve added photos of Clare from two appearances she made last month. Check them out in the gallery.

Later this year Clare Bowen Web will be celebrating 8 years online. I plan to add tons of missing photos and content to the site until then so keep checking back.

December 05 – Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Awards December 03 – Live Performance: NASCAR Night At The Opry (Stills)

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clarebowenweb · 4 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2019/11/photos-2019-cash-fest/

Photos: 2019 Cash Fest #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

Sorry for the lack of updates. I still adore Clare, but I’ve been pre-occupied offline. I will be working on adding a ton of missing photos and content to the site in the new year so please check back for all those exciting things.

Clare was in attendance at the very first Cash Fest where she performed with Brandon. Check out lovely photos in the gallery!

November 10 – Cash Fest Live Performance: 11/10/19 – Cash Fest (Stills)

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clarebowenweb · 5 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2019/10/photos-blue-bird-film-screening-and-after-party/

Photos: "Blue Bird" Film Screening and After Party #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

Clare attended the film screening and after party for the Blue Bird docu-film. I read somewhere that she has a cameo in the film. Check your listings to see if it’s playing near you. I’ve added photos from the screening to the gallery. Enjoy.

October 8 – Nashville Film Festival – “Bluebird” Screening

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clarebowenweb · 5 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2019/07/press-interview-clare-bowen-spotlights-her-musical-mission-on-her-self-titled-debut-album/

Press: Interview - Clare Bowen Spotlights Her ‘Musical Mission’ on Her Self-Titled Debut Album #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

In 2012, during CMA Fest in Nashville, Tenn., Clare Bowen stood onstage at what was then known as LP Field (these days, it’s Nissan Stadium) with the rest of the cast of a brand-new television show, Nashville. Bowen, a native Australian, had just arrived in town and was “completely wide-eyed, standing around and having no idea what was going on,” she recalls to The Boot.

“No one could have prepared me for what was going to happen — but they didn’t tell me that we were gonna be standing on this stage in front of more people than I had ever seen in my life!” Bowen continues. “I was like, ‘Don’t these people know that I’ve got 18 dollars in my bank account?'”

In the years that followed, Nashville’s popularity skyrocketed, as did Bowen’s comfort and ease onstage. On the TV drama, she played the shy, talented Scarlett O’Connor, who begins the series as a waitress at the Bluebird Cafe but quickly becomes a singer-songwriter in her own right. Like her former character, Bowen loves music, but hasn’t always pursued it directly, and she’s struggled to believe in herself and her abilities in the past; in fact, Bowen began work on her debut solo album nearly five and a half years before finally releasing the self-titled project on Friday (July 12).

Although growing pains are inevitable with any major career change, Bowen says she never regretted leaving her character behind. “It was definitely a big step to take, but more freeing than anything else,” she explains. “Scarlett had all these things happen to her, especially being treated badly by men and allowing it to happen, and that was always, like, the younger version of me. It was sometimes painful to watch her get mistreated time after time and keep going back to the same person who wasn’t changing and wasn’t willing to.”

The real-life Bowen and the fictional O’Conner have more differences than they do similarities. While the character is a native southerner with the accent to prove it, Bowen hails from New South Wales, Australia (and also has the accent to prove it). Telling her own story — as opposed to O’Conner’s, or some muddy combination of the two — was important to the singer as she crafted Clare Bowen, and she suspects that getting to the marrow of what she had to say is partially why it took so long to complete the record.

That, and the fact that much of its contents were tough to talk about. At age four, Bowen received a devastating diagnosis: She had cancer, and was given two weeks to live. When she set out to write her album, she knew she wanted to include a song about that experience — not only for the sake of telling her story, but also in remembrance of the many children she knew who didn’t survive their illnesses.

“I don’t know anyone else who survived my round of chemotherapy. It was experimental, and very extreme,” Bowen relates. She has a memory of getting into an elevator with her mom one day early in her treatment plan, when her chances of survival seemed very unlikely: “I remember asking my mother, ‘Are there heaters in heaven? Because it’s really cold here.’ I know that was crushing for her, but that was my mindset at the time, because I knew that I was dying,” she recalls.

While she was in the hospital, Bowen made friends with another young girl named Jackie. “To me, she was so grown up and so big and so strong, and she knew everything,” the singer remembers. “She showed me everything about the hospital, where it was fun to go, and that it was okay to be what we were.

“There was a little magazine, called the Chemo Chronicles, for all the kids, and in the back, there was a section [dedicated to saying] ‘Congratulations, you get to go home today,’ and along with that was the condolences section,” Bowen continues. “When I left the hospital, my name was in the congratulations [section], and Jackie’s was in the condolences section.”

The memory of Jackie and all the other children who lost their lives will always been an important part of Bowen’s identity. When she first got the chance to perform as herself — and not as Scarlett — she knew she had to showcase that aspect of her life. That song became “Warrior,” the last track on Clare Bowen.

“It became this anthem, stemming from beautiful, beautiful Jackie, who I think about every day,” Bowen explains. “And all my other friends who didn’t make it out, who I know they’re onstage with me every time I go out there.

It’s kind of hard to talk about,” she admits.

Once she wrote the song, however, Bowen realized that “Warrior” connected with all kinds of people, not just those who shared her experience of going through childhood cancer. “There are so many people out there who feel like what makes them not fit in is written all over them. I want them to know that whether your scars are in your mind, your heart, your body, your soul — they don’t define you. They’re beautiful,” Bowen says. “Battle scars are part of what makes them so precious.

“I think that’s part of my mission with music, too,” she adds, “to reassure people they’re not alone.”

Some well-intentioned people encouraged Bowen to make an album as Scarlett, but ultimately, the singer knew that she and her character had entirely different stories to tell. Nashville — the show, the town and all the people she’s met through and in them both — gave her the confidence to believe in the power of her own story and her own musical inclinations.

Clare Bowen resides more in the Americana realm than Scarlett’s more mainstream brand of singer-songwriter country ever did, and that difference in style can in part be traced back to their wildly different roots. Growing up in Australia, Bowen’s cultural inheritance was a “people’s music,” informed by Australian country and folk.

“I guess the sound of the earth in Australia is such a big thing for me and my family,” she explains. “It would be hard to put a genre on it, but if I had to, it has, like, Celtic, folk, mostly Americana roots, I suppose — but as someone from a different side of the world.”

Even though she’s from the other side of the planet, Bowen still had her first experiences with Nashville early on. As an artist who names Dolly Parton as one of her most important influences, she jumped at the chance to perform the country icon’s “Coat of Many Colors” for the Grand Ole Opry’s Opry Goes Pink Event, aimed at raising breast cancer awareness. When she was onstage, however, Bowen had a sudden flashback.

“I had this mad flash of memory, of sitting at my granddad’s kitchen table when I was really, really little, and Dolly was playing on the wireless. I think it was actually WSM radio,” she recounts. “That was one of those weird, full-circle things. It just knocked me off my feet a little bit.”

Bowen will return to the Opry on Friday to celebrate the release of her debut album. With contributions from artists such as Lori McKenna, Caroline Spence and Bowen’s husband, Brandon Robert Young, Clare Bowen is the product of a supportive community and a story that the artist has long been waiting to tell. – Source

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clarebowenweb · 6 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2018/09/clare-bowen-web-new-version/

Clare Bowen Web New Version #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

Your eyes have not deceived you! You are at Clare Bowen Web. The site has a brand new makeover in honor of Clare’s debut album and solo tour. I’m so, so very excited for her and this amazing journey she’s on. The new design is a scrapbook-esque design with photos from her tour in the UK. I hope you all love it as much as I do. It took me a very long time to make this but it was so worth it. Thank you!

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clarebowenweb · 6 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2018/09/photos-clare-bowen-uk-solo-tour-london/

Photos: Clare Bowen UK Solo Tour (London) #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

I’ve added some new(ish) photos of Clare from her UK solo tour. She looks so lovely and carefree. She looks like a girl who is living her dream. 🙂 Enjoy the photos.

I have so many photos and videos to sort through and add to the site so bare with me.

Live Performance: 09/12/18 – London (Stills)

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clarebowenweb · 6 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2018/09/press-video-clare-interview-on-build-uk-series/

Press/Video: Clare Interview on BUILD UK Series #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

Singer-songwriter and actress Clare Bowen was be LIVE on BUILD Series LDN, on 09/12/18, 11:30am. Clare Bowen talked about her new album and UK tour. Enjoy!

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clarebowenweb · 6 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2018/09/video-clare-and-brandon-perform-all-the-beds-ive-made/

Video: Clare and Brandon Perform "All The Beds I've Made" #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

WATCH: @clarembee has started her UK tour and released her debut album. Here's another stripped back session, this time for album track 'All The Beds I've Made'. Grab tickets here: https://t.co/PyQI2P2pL5 pic.twitter.com/scL1nZkNSC

— Ticketmaster UK (@TicketmasterUK) September 5, 2018

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clarebowenweb · 6 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2018/09/video-clare-and-brandon-perform-all-the-beds-ive-made/

Video: Clare and Brandon Perform "All The Beds I've Made" #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

WATCH: @clarembee has started her UK tour and released her debut album. Here's another stripped back session, this time for album track 'All The Beds I've Made'. Grab tickets here: https://t.co/PyQI2P2pL5 pic.twitter.com/scL1nZkNSC

— Ticketmaster UK (@TicketmasterUK) September 5, 2018

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clarebowenweb · 6 years

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New Site Update has been published on Clare Bowen Web

New Site Update has been published on https://clare-bowen.com/2018/09/press-a-musical-homecoming-for-illawarra-star-clare-bowen/

Press: A Musical Homecoming For Illawarra Star Clare Bowen #clarebowen #nashvillecmt

She grew up in the Illawarra but moved to Nashville to make her name in the TV series of the same name. Now Clare Bowen returns home to perform tunes from her new album.

Clare Bowen started working on her debut album more than five years ago – and it’s finally being released later this month.

The reason for the long wait is because a little TV show called Nashville got in the way.

In the US series, which just finished up after six seasons, the former South Coast resident played the role of Scarlett O’Connor – a poet and songwriter who started the show as a waitress and became half of a popular country music duo.

As well as filming the series, Bowen was one of the cast members who went on the road and performed music live on various Nashville tours.

She says it took up “a lot of mental bandwidth” being another person for more than five years, though she doesn’t feel a sense of resentment that the show got in the way of making her self-titled debut.

Rather, it gave her the time to work out just what she wanted to say.

“It took all that time because we were recording it and writing it between shoots and rehearsals and tours and all of the wonderful stuff that came with Nashville,” Bowen says.

“It gave me the time to find my own sound and my own voice. I found that through all the wonderful people I met in Nashville.”

Bowen spent some of her childhood on the South Coast and, while she now lives overseas with husband Brandon Robert Young, her family is still here on the coast.

“I grew up all over the place,” she says.

“Stanwell Park was one of the first beach towns we lived in. We also moved further down the coast and then back and forth from Sydney my whole life.

“Minnamurra’s where we landed. Honestly it’s felt the most like home. The South Coast is my home.”

She went to the University of Wollongong, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts in 2006.

She performed onstage in several Illawarra productions but got her first break in 2008 through actor David Field.

He’d spotted her a few years earlier when he was a guest lecturer at UOW and thought she had something. When it came time to cast his directorial debut The Combination, Field tracked her down and gave her the female lead.

Four years later, Bowen landed her big break – the role of Scarlett in Nashville. As a singer and an actor, it was the perfect show for her.

“It’s a dream come true,” she says.

“To be given that platform is such a massive privilege. To get to sing music every day and learn to play instruments, record albums and tour all over the world singing to people is just the greatest thing to get to do.”

She did learn to play both the banjo and piano for the show after she was cast as Scarlett (“they asked, ‘can you play an instrument?’ and I said ‘probably’.”)

But an inability to read music meant her teachers had to adopt an unusual approach to teaching her the songs.

“They would send me videos of their hands and I would copy what they were doing,” she says.

“That’s how I learned. It’s a party trick I have – I’ve always been able to learn something really quickly and then I forget it immediately afterwards.”

Nashville is done and dusted; the last episode aired in the States in July.

While it means she gets to direct her attention to her music for a while, Bowen admits the end of a steady job – and its steady pay cheque – is a little unnerving.

“It’s an interesting feeling. As an actor you live in the unknown and you never really know what’s going to come next.

“You learn to be excited about it rather than terrified by it,” she laughs.

Still, it’s not as though she’s had a lot of free time on her hands since filming wrapped up – she’s been so busy she says she hasn’t really had the time to feel sad about the end of the show.

The cast went on a performing tour of the UK and then she peeled off for a run of dates in Germany followed up by a support slot on a US tour with country duo Sugarland.

And now she and husband Young are heading to the UK for their own nine-date tour before heading to Australia for a five shows, with Wollongong the only non-capital city on the list.

She says it’s “kind of wild” that the experience of the Nashville TV series has ultimately led to her returning home to play her own songs.

While an interest in music came slightly ahead of acting, Bowen sees both as different forms of storytelling.

“Those things are so intertwined for me,” she says.

“I love telling stories and music is what happens when words aren’t enough.”

Bowen’s 11-track debut album comes with the flavour of Nashville (the city not the TV show). That’s an influence that came from a time long before she first became Scarlett O’Connor.

“I remember sitting at my granddad’s kitchen table when I was really little listening to Dolly Parton sing Coat of Many Colours,” she says.

“I’ve always loved Dolly, I’ve always loved Elvis and Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash.”

She was involved in writing most of the tracks on the album, one of which – a tune called Lullabye – was written when she first arrived in Nashville and still managed to make the final cut.

“A lot of songs don’t survive,” she says.

“You might eat them or you have these life experiences [later] that outweigh what you were thinking at the time but Lullabye stayed true.”

Bowen says the songs on the album “come right from the deepest part of me”. They may come with a part of her, but she’s hoping listeners might find a bit of themselves in amongst those 11 tracks.

Because that’s the nature of a song, it can grow and develop a different meaning for the listener.

“That’s part of being an artist,” Bowen says.

“You hope that people see their own stories in your stories. And music is something that brings people together so beautifully – it’s a universal language.

“It brings me no greater joy to hear people say ‘I hear my story in Warrior’ or maybe giving them words for something they didn’t really know how to voice before.

“One of the pluses of making music for me is because it is such a universal thing. It’s telling stories that move people but also reassuring people that they’re not alone.

“There are so many people out there wandering around with these life experiences and maybe they think they’re the only ones to go through that kind of thing.

“Through sharing music and sharing stories they find a network.”

While she did learn a few instruments for the TV series, Bowen says she limited herself to singing on the debut album.

“It was lot of fun learning all that stuff for the show but on the album I decided to leave the instrument-playing to the professionals,” she says.

“I really don’t think I should be playing the banjo in public.” – Source