Hi everyone and welcome to my page!...i have included a bio for information and please feel free to visit my myspace page as well at
http://www.myspace.com/allisonbarkley8 for more music!
Allison Barkley grew up in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, just a few doors
from the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, where she spent many
imaginative days. In her early twenties she migrated west to Victoria,
British Columbia, where she resided for a few years before packing and
moving up north to the Yukon. She lived there as a pioneer woman and
taught art classes at an elementary school, on reserve, in Lower Post,
BC. After a few years in the Yukon, she travelled Canada for about a
year, before slowly making her way back west.
Allison has been a figure painter for over ten years and has shown
her work in galleries in Victoria and Vancouver. She is strongly
influenced by the expressionists of the second world war. Allison is
also a short film-maker and has done several small projects, mainly in
the north.
Now residing on the Sunshine Coast, she has started recording the music
she's written over the past eight years with an amazing
producer/musician/engineer, and now good friend, Andy, at
Oceanview Studios and will soon be releasing her demo CD.
Allison has numerous musical influences, some of which are, Bob Dylan,
Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Elvis
Costello, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Memphis
Minnie, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Nick Cave, Traveling Wilburys, The
Clash, The Dead Kennedys, The Grateful Dead, The Smiths, Portishead,
Bjork, the Pixies, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, The
Pogues, Radiohead, Ricky Lee Jones, The Pretenders, the great Gillian
Welch and many musicians from the deep south.
Allison has been writing poetry her entire life and is inspired by
anyone doing anything creative. Allison is also co-owner of
Raindogmedia.com....a web design business.
Please visit
http:///www.myspace.com/allisonbarkley or http://www.allisonbarkley.com for artwork, newsletters and more music.
