Bio - Leah Barley Music

JUNOfest 2018, photo by Caleigh Mayer

Vancouver based folk-rock singer/songwriter Leah Barley was born in Saskatchewan and raised Ontario where she spent the summers barefoot and surrounded by music at her family cottage in Muskoka.

Acting and dancing since grade school it wasn't until she moved to Canmore, Alberta in her early twenties that she experienced,
and fell in love with, bluegrass and old time country music.

After buying herself a banjo she was writing and performing at open mics within two months and has been on a roll ever since.
Releasing her first EP Fly Away once she came to Vancouver in 2010, her second Close Your Eyes in early 2014, and her third Come Home in September 2016.

With just over a decade of performing under her belt, Leah has been compared to artist such as Norah Jones, Amy Winehouse, and Janis Joplin. She's toured parts of Canada for the past four years, performed at JUNOfest in 2018, at CBC Music in Vancouver (2017 & 2016), at the Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival (2017, w/the Spillionaires), at Woodstove Festival (2016), and has even played at the world famous Whiskey A Go Go and the Hotel Cafe in L.A. singing with The Wayward Hearts.

Leah can be found performing solo or accompanied by her backing band; outstanding violist John Kastelic (Salt Thief, Black Dog String Quartet), multi-instrumentalist Ross Christopher Fairbairn (East Van Grass, Glenn Chatten Band), and ridiculously fierce violinist Emily Heldson (the Wayward Hearts, Tamburasa)

Leah also sings and plays banjo with six piece Bluegrass band The Spillionaires and can be found working in film and television as a background performer and actor.

photos by Caleigh Mayer Dec 2, 2017, Lana Lou's, Vancouver

photos by KL PHOTOGRAPH Sept 16, 2016, Wise Hall, Vancouver

photos by PLDH Photography, July, 2016

November 2014