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Barbara Adler

General Info

  • Genre: Comedy / Folk / Hip Hop

    Location Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

    Profile Views: 36697

    Last Login: 12/6/2012

    Member Since 7/27/2006

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  • Bio

    Barbara Adler is a Vancouver-based spoken word artist, writer, and workshop facilitator. Known for her ability to mix intellectual poetics with entertaining observations about the quirkier moments of everyday life, Barbara has collaborated with composers, dancers, filmmakers and theater artists, creating “smart, funny, and often deeply moving poetry around questions of history, identity, and self-image” (Georgia Straight).She has been a CBC PGI Poetry Laureate (2007), a CBC Poetry Face Off Winner (Vancouver, 2007), and a Canadian Team Slam Champion (2005). She is a founding member of the 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award-nominated band, The Fugitives. Her new work finds her mashing together her words with the 120-button piano accordion. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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  • Influences

    Mark Twain, Gerald Durrell, Paul St. Pierre, Jacques Tati, Prince George, Hazelton (Old and New), and The Fisheries Broadcast on the CBC.
  • Sounds Like

    The verbal equivalent of a Bach fugue played by a choir of melodicas. But nicer (see Note 1). Complex funniness relayed through a person with springs in their bum (see Note 2). Stories about professional dog show MCs, suburban nerd heroes, and all things beautiful and electrical. Operettas about rappers and threesomes gone wistful. Poems about the things you wish you could tell your sister when she's down. Poems that prove you will not explode if you do something silly and awkward. Surprisingly friendly stuff from someone who was called a cynic by their grade 10 English teacher (See Note 3). New Adventures in pleasantly eccentric musicality involving slide shows and accordions. An ethic of hard work and character-building mistakes. Was it clear from the last couple of lines that I play the accordion. Yes. I play the accordion. It's coming along. Current projects include: The Fugitives (modern folk with poetry and an intense touring schedule); The B.C. Memory Game (provincial storytelling and visual art project in partnership with Literacy BC); Fang (junkyard of accordion and drums bound together by intensity and verve); Scholusm Schlace (Possum Face tribute band); ongoing solo performances and workshops *************************************************************** Note 1: Melodicas are reed instruments which sound like accordians but which look like a piano on a stick. Note 2: This is more endearing than you might imagine. Note 3: If you are sad, etc. this does not mean you will dislike me-- you can be ironic if you have to be. I totally celebrate and embrace that.

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  • ASza Avatare

    your poem about Buster Keaton is awesome.  

    1 year ago
  • Serachi

    Thanks for the friendship, I like your profile! Have a nice day.

    2 years ago
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    2 years ago
  • The Raysons

    Absolutely love your tunes, very witty & interesting...
    Please listen to us too and let us know what you think...

    3 years ago
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    3 years ago
  • ScIvO'

    tnk u for add!have a good day!:)

    3 years ago
  • Brian Bills

    100,000,000 people and going strong
    a wave of attraction
    Worldwide and in every little town and hamlet
    We are known

    Wherever rivers flow
    Emitting sounds
    The Siren's cry and the Dragon's wail
    Forged from steel deep within the earth's crust

    Trekking far and wide
    Opening doors and tearing down walls
    From back alleys to concert halls
    Everyone's welcome

    Bring a pint of whiskey
    Bring your troubled heart
    Feel electricity pulse through your veins
    Gallop at a full clip like a cheetah

    As your heart races
    You fear it may be too much to bare
    Yet you are indestructible
    You are a gladiator from ancient Rome
    Long live Maximo

    Long may you stain the memory of man
    And make him praise your name
    You died by a traitor's knife
    But you conquered the many

    And as the sea of human bodies sways too and fro
    The lights flicker through the evening mist
    On this night
    At this moment
    We are free

    Free from the tyranny of evil men
    Free from what lies beneath
    Free from the shadows that lurk in our minds
    Free from the beast

    3 years ago
  • Brian Bills

    spiritual beings in physical bodies


    Bombs would be bursting
    Dread locks unfurled
    Gorilla warfare with Cuban cigars and berets
    And I never really liked cake

    Neat little rows of houses
    Passing time by wasting it
    Never went outside my door
    And I hate the smell of thrift stores
    They smell like dead people's stuff

    Simple Simon relax and let go
    Handle the small things
    Work your way up
    Back off when it gets boring

    I walk and I wag it
    It slaps on both sides
    It gets hard when your near me
    That was fun let's do it again

    And the sum total of man's feeble efforts
    Will crumble and fall
    Like the nose on the Sphynx
    Some retarded Jackass will steal it and pawn it for a fix

    But when I run
    It's like I'm a thoroughbred quarter horse
    Stretching my legs
    With the music blasting
    My butt will get tight
    You'll see

    And everything is on sale at Walmart
    We are being outsourced and watered down
    From the board room to the ball room
    From sea to shining sea
    That bright and shiny stars and stripes

    Has been stolen
    That ideal of equality was hijacked
    Since the heros of the republic were gunned down
    JFK and Martin Luther King
    We were born into slavery
    Slavery of thought
    Slavery of poverty

    Lost was our freedom of joy and brotherhood
    Lost was our community spirit
    Lost was the trust we had in our neighbor
    Lost was our faith in the good of our fellow man
    Lost was the easy chair on the porch
    Lost was slumber parties

    After the "Our Fathers" I turned to my neighbors
    And nobody would shake my hand
    Or even give me an acknowledging half smile
    Instead they are just heeding the warning of the times
    Never talk to strangers
    Never smile at someone you don't know

    Especially if it's a guy
    He must just want something from you
    And I'm not afraid you won't like this
    You don't like anything that you don't understand
    You can't understand why anyone would be different than you

    But

    3 years ago
  • Illàchime Quartet_Am I …

    a xmas present..


    3 years ago
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