Kim Barlow is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

, based in Whitehorse

Whitehorse, Yukon

Whitehorse is Yukon's capital and largest city . It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1476 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in...

, Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

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Biography

Born in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 on March 10, 1969, and raised in rural Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

, she studied classical guitar at Florida State University

Florida State University

The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...

 before moving to the Yukon.

Music career

Kim Barlow has released three albums on the independent record label Caribou Records (Yukon) in Whitehorse and one on Jericho Beach Music

Jericho Beach Music

Jericho Beach Music is a Vancouver, British Columbia record label and is an imprint of Festival Distribution. It was formed in 1997 with the release of Compadres, a collaboration between singer/songwriter James Keelaghan and Latino guitarist Oscar Lopez....

 out of Vancouver. Her most recent album Saplings (2010) was produced in collaboration with Jean Martin of Barnyard Records in Toronto

Toronto

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, and Bob Hamilton at Old Crow Recording in Whitehorse.

She has toured across Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and internationally, both as a solo artist and as part of the collaborative Pan Canadian New Folk Ensemble tour with Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.-History:Born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in France and Kelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Guelph and Montreal before settling in Winnipeg in 1992.In 1993, she formed her first group,...

 and Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player, Chris Luedecke, of Chester, Nova Scotia...

. She also frequently collaborates with Mathias Kom of The Burning Hell

The Burning Hell (band)

The Burning Hell is a Canadian band from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, now based in St. John's, Newfoundland.-History:The Burning Hell is led by Mathias Kom and band members fluctuate with a rotating cast of up to fourteen other musicians. They are signed to the Toronto based weewerk label and...

 in the side project Spring Breakup

Spring Breakup (band)

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Her second album, Gingerbread, was a nominee for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (Solo)

Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Solo

The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Solo is presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the roots and/or traditional music genres...

 at the Juno Awards of 2003

Juno Awards of 2003

The Juno Awards of 2003 were presented in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 6 April 2003. The primary awards ceremony was hosted that evening by Shania Twain at the Corel Centre and televised on CTV.- Ceremony highlights :...

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In 2009, she recorded a new song, "Dawson City", for CBC Radio 2's Great Canadian Song Quest

Great Canadian Song Quest

Great Canadian Song Quest is an annual Canadian songwriting contest, sponsored by CBC Radio 2. Each year's contest features 13 Canadian musical artists, one from each province and territory, who are asked to write a song about a location in their home province which is selected by a listener...

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Discography

• Humminah (1999)
• Gingerbread (2001)
• Luckyburden (2004)
• Champ (2007)
• Saplings (2010)

External links

• Kim Barlow