Shari Ulrich

Originally a California girl, long settled on the west coast of Canada, Shari celebrates close to 5 decades as a touring recording artist and multi-instrumentalist (violin, mandolin, piano, guitar, dulcimer, & harmonica). From Pied Pumkin through The Hometown Band, and on as a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist has lead to 25 albums – including her collaboration with solo artists Bill Henderson and Roy Forbes (UHF), Barney Bentall & Tom Taylor (BTU), and more recently The High Bar Gang, a 7 piece bluegrass band with Barney Bentall. Her work has garnered 2 Juno awards, several Juno nominations, an induction into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, and a 2014 CFMA for English Songwriter of the Year.

Through it all Shari raised daughter Julia Graff, now 31 with a Masters in Sound Recording from McGill University - an accomplished multi-instrumentlist, music editor in film and television, producer, graphic designer, videographer and photographer.

Shari tours solo, as well as with a trio with Julia and fellow High Bar Gang member Kirby Barber, and occasionally with the addition of Cindy Fairbank on piano.