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Barbara Lynch picked up her passion for singing and playing piano from her mother.

At 11 years old she was playing weddings and high masses with the choir in the church in Ayton, near Walkerton, Ontario where she lived.

In high school she began writing songs, but by the time she graduated from Trent University with an honors B.A. in 'Philosophy and Literature' she had no idea what she was going to do with her life.

So, she set out to play in piano bars in CP Hotels and Holiday Inns where she developed her Tom Waits-styled dark and self-deprecating sense of humor and worked it into her solo act. By the early 1980s, she was a one-person, piano act in rock clubs, was stuck in a cycle of performing in one horse towns. She got out of the Northern Ontario circuit immediately.

After a year of working retail on Yonge Street in Toronto, she started to guest for artists like Micah Barnes and David Ramsden and found herself performing in the gay club circuit near Church and Wellesley.

She also began recording and her first EP, 'Don’t Talk to Me' in 1992, was produced by Roxy Music/Japan producers John Punter in 1992.

In 1997 she was signed to Duke Street Records and recorded the album 'Good Bye and Good Luck' but it didn't lead her career much farther so she left the music business.

She then became a caregiver for the elderly and for dying AIDS patients for a number of years. She also joined Greenpeace as a full-time staffer at this time running the phone canvass and she started to write again.

She met a fellow kindred spirit in John Timmins when he joined Greenpeace in 2007. The two musicians spent a lot of Sundays and vacation days in 2008 recording the album 'In the Nickelodeon' which she self-produced. She also brought in additional musicians to fill out the sound like Eric Brown, Christopher Plock, Katherine Wheatley and John Wojewoda.




Singles


Albums
1992 Don't Talk To Me [EP]
1998 Goodbye And Good Luck (Duke Street) DSRMD-31099
2008 In The Nickelodeon (Maple Music/Universal)

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Compilation Tracks