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Barbara Higbie is a pioneering performer whose career spans decades of collaboration, innovation, and lush, genre-bending compositions. As the first female instrumentalist signed to Windham Hill, she helped shape a sound that fuses folk, jazz, pop, and new-age textures into melodic, deeply expressive music. Higbie’s work extends beyond recording to live performances with icons such as Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, and the Kronos Quartet, and across a discography that includes 11+ albums on labels like Windham Hill, Olivia/Second Wave, and Slow Baby.