Barbara Bellows

Barbara Bellows began her singing career while earning her music education degree at Boston University. She performed in the folk tradition in coffee houses and college concerts. In the early 1970’s, she helped form a group, “The Canaan Concertante”, that performed Renaissance and Baroque music with voice, recorders, shawms, sackbut and guitar. In 1978, she issued an LP album called, Barbara Bellows: At the Bee and Thistle Inn, featuring traditional songs that she sang a cappella or accompanied by herself on guitar, recorder or Appalachian dulcimer. In the late 1990’s, she helped form ArtCare, bringing art and music to patients at the Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon. NH, by singing with or for patients, putting poems to music, etc. She still teaches piano and continues to perform at various venues including TTT.