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About Ibby
 Ibby
is a folk rock’n roll songwriter and performing artist
originally from Southern California who currently makes her home in
the mountains South and West of Boulder, Colorado. She taught herself
how to play guitar at ten to Beatles songbooks, and practiced singing
to the Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan and Rice and
Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar when she was very young.
She wrote her first song in college at 19 about heartbreak over a boy.
Ibby's musical
sensibility took root with the Liverpool fab four, and her musical
tastes branched out from there and today her songs manifest a broad
range of musical influences - from rock and roll to folk, and country
rock to American roots music.
Her influences:
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Kinks, Todd Rundgren, Heart,
Yes, Carole King, James Taylor, Joan Baez, Liz Phair, Aerosmith,
Queen, all manner of 60’s and 70’s country rock, Mary
Chapin Carpenter, John Cowan, Elvis Costello, Indigo Girls, Sheryl
Crow, Alanis Morissette, Nickel Creek, John Lennon, Aimee Mann, Joni
Mitchell.
Songwriters she likes:
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, & George Harrison. Bruce
Springsteen. Darrell Scott. Leonard Cohen. Pete Seeger. Neil and Tim
Finn. EmmyLou Harris. Liz Phair. Jack White. Johnny Cash. Graham
Parsons. Jackson Brown. Alanis Morissette. Hank Williams. Bob Dylan.
David Crosby. Stephen Stills. Ray LaMontagne. Patty Griffin. Shawn
Colvin. Beth Neilsen Chapman. Mary Gauthier.
Producers she
likes: Jack White. Stephen Barncard. T Bone Burnett. Linda Perry.
Daniel Lanois. Don Was. Todd Rundgren. Sheryl Crow. Darrell Scott.
Sebastian Haimerl. Russ Kunkel. Graham Nash.
Ibbys music has
been described as "gutsy, honest, and rockin." Like
most good music it defies simple categorization. Her sound is
uniquely her own. It's beautiful folk pop that is both light and
dark, often playful, sometimes edgy, and always straight from the
heart. It’s music you like.
Ibby has performed
in Denver, Boulder, Lyons, Nederland, Coal Creek Canyon, Durango,
Vail, Beaver Creek, and near Colorado Springs, Colorado. She has also
performed in Cheyenne, Laramie, Hastings, Lexington, Nashville, San
Diego, Riverside, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. She has shared the
stage with Lee Johnson, Carey
Colvin, Benny and the Wayward Sons, Arthur Lee Land, Nick
Forster, Wendy Woo, Hazel Miller, Boulder Acoustic Society,
Soundrabbit, and Yonder Mountain String Band.
Ibby has been
songwriting on and off for 27 years, performing for 13, and is both a student
and teacher of songcraft. In this spirit, she is currently and
continuously writing, rewriting, and refining her songs through input
from her many wonderful teachers and through her live performances.
Her
“debut” CD, the solo EP “Just Five, Studio –
Live!” was recorded at InSight Sound Studio in
Loveland, Colorado, in June 2010. It is now available. |
