Brian Barnes has a diverse musical biography spanning more than 30 years.
He's toured Japan, Holland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and Switzerland (as well as the U.S. and Canada) as a Bluegrass musician; performed Country music at concerts and festivals in eastern Europe; traditional Irish in America and Ireland; blues in Hungary; French music at Lincoln Center; American Swing and Latin music in Vienna. As a core musician on a nationally broadcast radio program, he worked with famous performers such as Garrison Keillor, Minnie Pearl, Rose Maddox and Johnny Gimbel. As a musician and orchestra director for the nationally renowned Ethnic Dance Theatre, he performed Russian, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian Music on traditional instruments. He’s studied Balalaika with a Russian priest, percussion with drummers from the Ossetian and Uzbeki state orchestras, jazz guitar with a Berkley grad, Bulgarian bagpipes in Sofia, Bulgaria.
As a recording artist Brian appears on projects equally as varied, is a producer, and is composer/music director for independent film projects plus his own film music company, MovieVaudeville.
Brian is sought after as a teacher as well, specializing in teaching adults from beginners to advanced.
Brian is always busy teaching, composing, performing, and recording, is trying to get better on the accordion before someone kills him, ditto the lap steel. It's a big, big world full of great music.
Partial List of Credits
Recordings
-with Stoney Lonesome
*A Prairie Home Companion presents Stoney Lonesome
*Prairie Home Companion Tourists
*Prairie Home Companion 10th Anniversary
*Let Them Talk
-with Cafe Accordion Orchestra
*Dancing on the Moon
*On Holiday
*Live
*Le Disc Français
*Cinema
*Germaine
-with Neal and Leandra
*Stranger to my Kin
*A Tribute to Perry Como
as well as recordings by:
*Jazz Deluxe w/ Clint Hoover
*The Swinglish Project
*Christianson Sisters
*The Smarts
*Jazztronauts
*Christmas Around the World (Target Corp)
and many more....