Author, Singer, Painter, Flutist Barrett Cobb on Write Now Radio!

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Viki Winterton interviews Barrett Cobb! 

Barrett Cobb is a singer, painter, flutist, and now author living in New York City.  She has performed as mezzo-soprano soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Chorale, the Sine Nomine Singers and Baroque Orchestra, the AIMS Orchestra, and the Orchester Landesteater Dessau. She has appeared frequently in recital in both New York and Paros, Greece.

Her paintings have been exhibited in three one-woman shows in New York City and in two group shows at the Broome Street Gallery. She was twice a prize winner in juried transparent watercolor shows at the Church of the Covenant in Manhattan. She studied painting at the Aegean Center for the Arts in Paros, Greece, the American Academy of Design, in New York, and privately with Alice Meyer Wallace, Wade Schuman, Jane Morris Pack, and Jack Stewart.

In her new bestseller, Walk Shepherdess, Walk, Barrett has given a fresh look at this age-old classic nursery rhyme/folk song. “Shepherdess Walk” was one of many poems in Nursery Rhymes of London Town, written by Eleanor Farjeon in 1916. In 1919, Eleanor composed and added music to her world-famous nursery rhyme.

When Barrett Cobb was a child, her mother taught her this folk song. Barrett has taken this beautiful melody and arranged it for voice, flute, and piano. In addition to singing this song, Barrett has created beautiful paintings–which correspond to all of the phrases of the song–so readers can follow along visually with the musical performance.