About Bev Barnett

Roots music runs deep for this native Texas girl, fed by many summers listening to uncles and grandparents picking on the porch. Guitars, fiddles and mandolins were a staple, right up there with sweet tea and black eyed peas.

Transplanted to California at an early age, Bev took up the clarinet in the 4th grade. Then flute in 6th grade. Saxophone in 7th. Bassoon in 8th. She tried the French horn in 9th, but found out brass wasn't her thing. The whole spit valve issue was less than appealing. Moving from California to Illinois during high school, music always gave her a place to belong. She eventually ended up choreographing color guard rifle routines for the Northern Illinois University Huskie Show Band. Staying in the woodwind section would have been safer.

Spending all that time in band, she never really thought about singing. Now skip ahead a decade or so. One day someone said "hey, you should join the church choir." Bev has a problem saying no. So, there she was in the alto section in a red choir robe.

After meeting Greg in the late 1990s, she began singing with him and the immediate response was about this amazing blend that happened between their voices, likened to sibling harmonies. Mark Whittington was entertainment editor of the San Jose Mercury News at the time and he called it "bedroom harmony, or kitchen table harmony." No matter what you call it, it works.

Bev's artistic endeavors are wide and varied, from songwriting to hand made paper to ceramic sculpture as a medium for emotional creativity. She is intrigued with using recycled and found objects, especially guitar strings, in her visual art. Guitar string earrings are a specialty.

When she's not writing or sculpting, Bev is a mother of two children and two step-children, a part-time freelance public relations consultant for companies in Silicon Valley, and serves as vice president of the board of directors of Folk Alliance-Region West. In her spare time, she sleeps.