"Folk festival in a box" Barbara Silverman has performed in concerts, festivals and workshops across the land. Dubbed a stunning vocalist early on by the Old Time Herald, she ever displays an engaging presence, bluesy vocals, clever originals, solid swing guitar, spirited piano back-up and washboard pyrotechnics. She is also a proclaimed “master teacher” of music and dance.
 

Barb’s renowned Laketown Buskers jug band thrice captivated the iconic “Prairie Home Companion” followed by countless Midwest fests and venues. She has appeared in award winning bands in West Virginia and Colorado; clogged on The Studs Terkel Show; frequented prominent Chicago folk clubs; shared stages with Emmy Lou Harris, Bill Monroe, Odetta, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Greg Brown, David Bromberg, Buffy St. Marie and more. She has seven recordings available on Vetco, Marimac and independent labels.
 

Leader of The Teflons sextet featuring lush harmony and dynamite solos, Barb is half of the beloved old-time/swing duo Silver Rose. That duo ballooned into the exciting collaboration Buds and Shoots that mainstaged the Chicago Square Roots Fest and Wisconsin White Oak Fest, and launched the recently created Trio D'Argent.
 

Barb is a founding cast member of Songs of Good Cheer, the famed winter concert series created by Tribune icons Eric Zorn and Mary Schmich now entering the 26th year. A multi-department faculty member at the renowned Old Town School of Folk Music, she was part of their first international exchange to England and Finland. Barb has performed and taught at Indiana University Northwest, Urban Gateways, The Discovery Center and prominent venues dotting the Midwest. She received repeated grants from the City of Chicago Office of Cultural Affairs as well as the Maurice and Hulda Rothschild Foundation.
 

To this day Barb is ever vibrantly teaching and performing. Find her recordings and appearances at www.silverbeammusic.com in her many incarnations.