Barry James Payne

Barry James Payne is an award winning musician and artist from Southwestern Ontario, Canada, who has performed in several projects, most notably, his solo North Americana band String Bone and his Celtic-fusion group Rant Maggie Rant.Payne has been writing songs, producing records and performing live for four decades and has co-produced and released two full length String Bone albums, ‘nadir’ (2009), ‘Love & Highways’ (2016), and in the last three years, 6 singles, 15 videos reaching over 250,000 streams/views online. He has performed internationally in the US, Europe as well as across Canada throughout his career in every type of venue imaginable, from house concerts to theatres with 50 piece orchestras.