Matthew Barber’s new EP ‘No Singing Or Dancing‘ was released recently, and this song is taken from it. It is, as you might guess, a gentle folky thing capturing a quiet moment of contentment. Well, let’s say contentment – because the song was co-written by Barber and Jason Rutledge for a theatrical production of ‘The Graduate.’ We’re not sure exactly which scene it was for, but in that theatre adaptation it was a pure instrumental. That was some years ago and Matthew Barber has now added lyrics and there’s surely an intentional echo of Simon and Garfunkel to be heard.
Matthew Barber is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter who has been plying his trade for two decades, releasing ten records and touring across four continents along the way. His work has garnered a couple of Juno nominations, a handful of Canadian Folk Music award nominations, and even a pair of Montreal English Theatre awards for his musical contributions in the world of the dramatic arts. Busy guy!
Matthew Barber was eight gigs into a US tour when the pandemic hit and everything changed. So the Toronto based singer-songwriter's new song 'Viral' can be seen as a lockdown song - and it is in part, but there's more to it than that. Barber muses on our several paths…
Consistently solid writing and performing from Canadian troubadour. It’s inevitable that a musician's previous life, before they enter this new creative world, will impinge on their songwriting and general ethos. But Toronto-based Barber feels that this simply isn’t the case. The fact that he was, in his previous life, a…
Songs of the road, love and loss feature in new album from Georgia. ‘Until the Thunder’ is Evan Barber’s first solo album after a number of other releases with his band, the Dead Gamblers. He adds to a long list of songs celebrating the road or lamenting lost love, or…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
