Barry is featured in the Mitchell News Journal!
Here is an excerpt from the original article published March 29, 2017!
SPRUCE PINE – Music is an expression of Barry Stagg’s voyage through life.
Now in his early 70s, Stagg has been a songwriter since he was barely a teenager growing up in Montreal, Quebec. His first album, “Anthony Green and Barry Stagg,” was released in 1969 and featured the hit song “To Love Means to be Free.”
“I draw from within my own journey of life,” Stagg said.
He talked about his music career on a recent Tuesday at The Dispensary, a private club on Oak Avenue in Spruce Pine he and his wife, Barbara, have operated for about four years. The club offers live music and Stagg performs on Tuesday nights.
Stagg said he got into music around age 11.
“I was playing hockey at the time, too, of course, like all good Canadians, playing hockey,” he said. “By the age of 13 I discovered that it was the guitar players that got the girls, not the hockey players.”
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