Original singer Rebecca Barclay creates a richly daring canvas of dynamic nuance, built with passion. This creative musician fills each musical offering with detailed soaring vocal colours.

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New Album July 10th 2026!
Rebecca has just released Volume One of
The Songs of Rebecca Barclay

In her work as a traditional singer, underplayed is Rebecca's writing of original songs. This new CD highlights her early songwriting. Rebecca had good mentors: for example, her mother Jane Graham Barclay who wrote radio dramas for Peter Gzowski of CBC, Leon Rosselson the thoughtful political and satirical UK songwriter, and the astounding vocalist and women's movement leader and singer Frankie Armstrong! These songs are a young Canadian's storytelling - Volume 1. The plan is to follow next year with Volume 2 - more recently penned mature songs.

A fearless and dedicated musical seamstress with full-ranging vocals, traditional singer Rebecca Barclay’s original songwriting is both gentle and otherworldly building a daring canvas of joyful textures. Rebecca’s songs tell the other sides of stories, celebrating nature and the underdog.

In 2010 Rebecca Barclay was nominated as Canada's best Traditional Singer for her work on her traditional folk-roots CD of 2010, named after the periodic table element red CINNABAR.

CINNABAR is a resounding blend of traditional song brought to life with ornamentation and rhythmical influences from a diverse range of cultural traditions, full of joyful and original textures, the weaving of an unusual sound. The CD is the result of working with many different musicians and pulling them together to focus traditional songs bursting with new flavours.

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