BARBARA WITH is an award-winning composer and performer who got her start on the imfamous Minneapolis West Bank during the days of Dylan, Koettke and Kerner, Ray and Glover. She has won several Minnesota Music awards through the years: Best Female Soloist; Favorite Female Vocalist; the video of her song "Dancing on the Beach" won first place in the Northwest Cablevision music awards; her original acoustic trio, Les Amies, was picked one of Minneapolis Best Unsigned Bands in the Yamaha Ticketmaster Unsigned Band Contest; and the song she wrote for the Portage for Youth After School Program won finalist in the 2002 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

She's opened for Tower of Power, Joan Armatrading, Tom Waits, Jerry Jeff Walker, Chuck Berry, to name a few. Throughout the years she has toured internationally as an original soloist, in duos and trios, with original rock & roll ensembles, and dance cover bands. She has recently taken up writing for the musical theater, and mentoring and producing children in songwriting.

Media Kit

Acoustic rock about living in a dream. Guitar/vocal

A smokey blues tune about the sensuality of the senses

From the musical, "Trudelia & Truffledino" a haunting ballad about walking the high wire. Piano/vocal

From the musical "The Last Voyegeur" a comedy about one scientist's greatest love: his brain. Piano/vocal

From the musical "Trudelia & Truffledino" a love song about finding one's passion and never letting go. Piano/vocal

A tribute to a young man who passed away and left a young wife and child. Piano/vocal

An uplifting ballad about how to find faith in the darkest times.