Music has always
filled the spaces.
The happy ones. The difficult ones. And everything in between.
Music isn’t simply something Barry teaches.
It’s one of the ways he lives, performs and connects.
It began with people, not lessons.
Long before the stages and the classrooms, music arrived through the people around him — a father playing and singing, a mother’s records, songs that carried stories and feeling.
That beginning still shapes how he plays, and why.
“Music entered through the people, not the lessons.”
A working musician, still becoming the artist.
Guitar in hand, voice into a microphone, in front of a live audience — this is where music becomes something shared. Over the years, the music has moved from private moments with a guitar into gigs, stages and rooms full of people.
He doesn’t treat this chapter as finished. The aim is simple and ongoing — to keep growing as a performing artist, one song and one stage at a time.
Working musician. Continuing artist. The next chapter still unfolding.
Music is rarely a solo pursuit.
Places like Kitchen Jam in Stratford — a premier guitar school where Barry continues to learn, play and grow — are where so much of the music actually happens. Rehearsal rooms, other players, the greeting before a note is played. The music is the medium; the people are the point.
From My Side of the Speakers
Songs I’ve written, recorded and carried with me over the years — gathered properly inside The Studio.
Step into the room where the music lives.
The collection, the songs that live in my hands, the listening, and the music that came back out. A room to wander through — not a playlist to scroll.
Enter The StudioSee it and hear it for yourself.
Performances, sessions, tutorials and music from across Barry’s work.
A selection of genuine performances, sessions and tutorials is being gathered here.
View more on YouTubePassing it on.
Barry is an educator as well as a musician. Guitar and ukulele, children and adults, workshops and group learning — helping other people find their own way into music is part of how he lives it.
It’s one dimension of the music, not the whole of it.
Baby Concerts
Before music becomes a lesson, it can become a memory.
Live music. Tiny humans. Grown-ups close by. No stage barrier and no expectation to sit perfectly still.
Baby Concerts bring performance down onto the floor — creating a space where babies can hear, move, explore, laugh and respond to real music alongside the people who know them best.
For Barry, it is another reminder that music does not begin with technique. It begins with experience, curiosity and connection.
Music before lessons.
Connection before perfection.
Some audiences are just starting earlier than others.
If music can create connection before someone can even speak, the same thing happens everywhere people gather to play.
Music starts with sound. It becomes something bigger when people share it.
Somewhere along the way the music stopped being a solo act. Ukulele gatherings, community groups, theatre and live events — rooms of people playing and singing together, becoming something more than the sum of their parts.
See the communityPeople are the point.
What begins with a few chords can become confidence, friendship, belonging and a room full of people making something together.
The ukulele community in their own words — inclusive, welcoming, and a genuine highlight of the week for its members.
Explore more of the work.
The website is the home of it all — these are where you can follow along and see more.
The next song hasn’t been played yet.
Performance. Original music. Recording. Collaboration. New stages, new ideas — and always more to learn.
Still learning.
Still playing.
Still building.