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Catherine Barnes (formerly Queen Mab) is a drummer, percussionist, comedian, songwriter, and solo theatre artist who has worked undercover as a middle school drum teacher in San Diego, California for the last eight years. She likes to take all those things about life that make you want to crawl under something and die…and turn them into funny songs filled with percussion instruments. She’s also written and performed two award-winning solo plays, a two-person play, and a radio play featuring the band Calamity.
Want to know more? Here’s a longer bio.
🌟Artist Statement🌟
You know that uncomfortable twinge
When you’re stuck in a moment that’s cringe?
With percussion and rhymes,
I turn all those times
Into music and shows that you’ll binge!
🌟Press and Interviews🌟
- Catherine Barnes: Album Review – Bart Mendoza for the San Diego Troubadour
- Catherine Barnes/”Trouble: A Calamity Adventure” – Dave Drexler for KSDS Jazz 88.3
- Fringe Fest Review – China Young for the Arizona Daily Star
- The Creative Mind of Catherine Barnes – Paul Hormick for the San Diego Troubadour
- Theatre Review: Yes, No, Maybe So – Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros for NoHo Arts
- Conversations with Catherine Gray Barnes – SDVoyager Magazine interview
- San Diego Reader Bio – Jay Allen Sanford for the San Diego Reader
- What’s the CONSENT? Are we BOTH on “maybe?” – Video interview for the Chris Collins Show
- Catherine Barnes joins the Tim Gillette Show – Video interview with Tim Gillette
- Trouble! A Calamity Adventure on #JustTalking – Video interview with Chris Collins
- In Space, No One Can Hear You Quarantine – Irina Yakubovskaya for The Theatre Times
🌟Articles by Catherine Barnes🌟
- Enrique Lopetegui: Snark, Slam, and Rocanrol – book review, SD Troubadour
- Hima Joshi: Finding the Balance Between Science and Music – interview, SD Troubadour
- Gloria Yehilevsky: From Vanguard to Visionary – feature, SD Troubadour
- Why the World Needs More Musicians – article for the Hera Herald