Join Dave Barber at Phantom Creek Estates

Dave Barber is a Canadian musician, recording artist (Molly’s Eyes, 2023), songwriter, singer, and live performer. He creates beautiful unhurried melodies and songs rich in tone and playfulness, pulling from classic country, roots, folk, and jazz. Dave met his wife Kirby in Edmonton where they started gigging. It was great training for what came next.

Kirby and I moved to Vancouver in 2011, in search of new opportunities to play with different artists and push ourselves. This is where I met and played with people like Chad Brownlee, Dallas Smith, and had a banjo part on a four-times platinum single by Coleman Hell, 2 Heads.

A big part of our growth as musicians has been to leave one scene and move to another. We did that again, in 2017, when we moved to Nashville.

Nashville is where the big names play and record, so you have all sorts of opportunities to learn and grow at even a higher level of talent and professionalism.

I’m excited to finally be putting together my own work, expressing who I am. At this point, I’m most excited about trying to create my own sound, a sound and a style that puts together the many elements of music that I love.

Me being me is all that I can bring to the musical table. And it’s the most interesting challenge I’ve set myself to date.