Barbara Truex, Master Reviewer, has been involved with musical performance, composition, teaching, production, and arts administration for over 30 years. She also creates theatrical sound designs, is a dj for community radio, and co-owner (with her husband Chris White) of Arts Resource Service in Windham, Maine.

Arts Resource Service is a full spectrum arts consultation company founded in the mid-1980's by Christopher White. Truex and White utilize their combined talents and experience to serve a broad based group of clients, providing an extremely large range of services including brokering art sales, exhibition design and installation, database creation and management, grant writing, Board development, fund raising, booking performances, financial management, and more. The couple ran the C.W. White Gallery from 2001 - 2004 presenting contemporary art from Maine and around the world.

A performing musician since the 1960's, Ms. Truex has been active in a wide range of musical genres and contexts. She is recognized as an innovator for her use of the dulcimer in jazz, pop, free improvisational music and other settings beyond the familiar folk and traditional realms. She founded and directed the Northeast Dulcimer Symposium for 17 years -- a week-long intensive study session held in the Adirondacks. She has extensive experience working with dance and theater ensembles, as a composer, on-stage musical accompanist, and sound designer. She is a member of The Maine Squeeze accordion ensemble (as percussionist); and Loopin', a world beat dance band with an emphasis on African and Latin sounds. In Loopin', Ms. Truex performs primarily on electric dulcimer and ukuleles.

As a recording artist Ms. Truex has been involved with many projects for other artists as well as her own solo and group releases. Her most recent project as a producer is Myth Songs by Nick Humez. She was elected to the Maine Arts Commission Touring Artist Roster in 1996. Ms. Truex is a member of the Mad Horse Theatre Company, and also works regulary with the Theater Project in Brunswick. She hosts a weekly world music radio program on WMPG in Portland , Maine, entitled Crossfade.

Ms. Truex can be reached by e-mail here.