Barbara Higbie CD Release & Winter Solstice Celebration at Freight & Salvage
Schedule
Sun Dec 18 2022 at 07:00 pm
Location
Freight & Salvage | Berkeley, CA
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Join Barbara Higbie to celebrate this year’s Winter Solstice along with the release of her new album. Featuring Jami Sieber, Vicki Randle, MIchaelle Goerlitz, and Dewayne Pate.Barbara Higbie’s family moved to Ghana, West Africa when she was thirteen years of age. It was there she first fell in love with music and studied with master drummer Mustafa Tetty Addy. Later in life, after musical studies at Mills College, studies at the Sorbonne and a sojourn performing in Paris, she returned to West Africa with a Watson Fellowship to collect traditional music. A professional musician since age 17, Barbara has played everything from Traditional Jazz, Bluegrass and Irish to New Classical Music, Blues and African Pop. She is known for her ability to compose in a style that is both genre bending and accessible.
A Grammy-nominated, Bammy award winning composer, pianist, fiddler, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Barbara Higbie has performed on more than 100 albums, including Carlos Santana’s 2007 release.
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Where is it happening?
Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
