Barbara Higbie (born 1958) is an American Grammy nominated, Bammy award winning pianist, composer, violinist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
She has toured nationally and internationally since the early 1980s, and performed with Bonnie Raitt, Terry Riley, Pete Seeger, The Kronos Quartet, Jaron Lanier, Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Teresa Trull and Ferron.
Born in Michigan and raised in Indiana, she spent several years as a teenager in Ghana with her family, while her father, Nathan B. Higbie III helped establish the successful non-profit "Technoserve".
Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Mills College,[citation needed] she attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to collect traditional music in West Africa.
Higbie maintains an active touring schedule, both as a solo artist and as a member of the Windham Hill Winter Solstice ensemble.