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Victoria songwriters Paul Mowbray and Tracy Mills delight audiences with
their original upbeat acoustic pop. Guitar, violin, and vocals.
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Victoria songwriting duo Paul Mowbray and Tracy Mills
play upbeat original music that travels wide and touches many.
Pop/funk grooves mix with classical melodies, blues/jazz riffs, and
distinctive vocals. Guitar, violin and vocals.
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GAME
Mowbray and Mils
CD released October 2007
What began as a 3-song performance in 2005 has blossomed
into a fully engaged writing and performing team. Victoria
songwriting duo Paul Mowbray and Tracy Mills present GAME, their debut
CD. The 10-original songs showcase their musicality and love of
lyrics. The songs range from luxurious to playful and feature
Paul’s acoustic guitar stylings, Tracy’s lush violin licks, and
distinctive vocals from both.
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[Cool, jazzy] Christmas Songs
Mowbray and Mils
EP released December 2008
Victoria songwriters and performers Mowbray and Mills
deliver a cool, uptown collection of four new and original Christmas
Songs for the season. Embracing their jazz muses, Mowbray and
Mills deliver sparkle and sentiment without the sap. They've
brought in some talented jazz musicians to warm the airwaves: Jan
Stirling on piano, Steve Sutton on bass, and Mike Wall on tenor sax.
The album is available as a download at BullFrogMusic.com and iTunes.
www.mowbrayandmills.com
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Victoria performers and songwriting duo Paul Mowbray
(guitar/vocal) and Tracy Mills (violin/vocal) play upbeat original music
that entertains and delights. Drawing from lyric-based folk,
sophisticated blues, Pac-Rim funk, and classical sensibilities, their
music moves and changes. Just when you think you know what to
expect – you’re surprised. Just when you think you know what’s
coming next – they’ve moved. So grab hold and hang on!
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Mowbray and
Mills - What began as a 3-song “first date” in 2005, has blossomed
into a fully engaged writing and performing team. Paul Mowbray
(guitar/vocals) and Tracy Mills (violin/vocals) deliver upbeat original
songs that draw from contemporary pop, blues, Pac-Rim funk, and
classical sensibilities – a pretty wide influence, but it‘s reflected in
the way their music moves and changes. Just when you think you’ve got
them pegged, they’ll surprise you with a tango, or some heart-melting
nylon guitar, then they'll dash off into a driving funk violin groove.
Their love of music and performance is paramount as energy explodes off
the stage and their interactions draw you in.
Paul Mowbray -
comes from Saskatchewan via
Afghanistan and Java, but has called the West coast his some since
1985. He is a prolific songwriter, a gifted guitarist, and a caring and
effective teacher. (In a funny six-degrees-of-separation kind of way, he
taught Tracy’s cousin guitar in Saskatoon over 15 years ago, long before Paul and Tracy met). Paul draws musical influence from the great
pop songwriters of Tin Pan Alley to today. He has been passionate about
writing songs since high school, and believes pop music is the
soundtrack to our lives. Previous releases include
"Prairie Stop", a gorgeous instrumental disc of solo acoustic guitar
reflecting his prairie roots, and "The Wave Project", a world jazz CD
of original instrumentals with Mike Wall on sax.
Paul's 2001
release, "A Sweet Kind of Blue", which featured three Salt Spring
vocalists interpreting his songs, received national airplay on
"Discdrive" and Ross Porter’s jazz show, ”After Hours".
Tracy Mills
Tracy Mills
comes from Edmonton. She grew up on classical Suzuki-violin
training (one of
Canada’s “original 26 Suzuki kids”), then developed her improvisational
and songwriting ear playing pop/blues/rock. Tracy’s classical background
fuses with her love of pop music to give the guitar/violin sound that
defines much of the Mowbray and Mills material. Her vocal influences
tend to blues/jazz stylings and her strong improvisational abilities
lead to much excitement live. Tracy released a CD of original material,
"Passion and Pain" with James Ross in 2003. Always into music, but
never exclusively so, Tracy competed for Canada's National Volleyball
team in the 1980’s and later played professionally in Europe. An
athletic highlight was competing in the Olympic Games in 1984.
As Mowbray
and Mills say, “art makes sense of what will never make sense, it
dances, it sings, it is beautiful, it is shocking, it tells us who we
are, it is an essential part of our many lives. Hope you like the
tunes.”
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