Yukon who is who

Barbara Chamberlin

Barbara Chamberlin is a musician who moved to the Yukon in the early 1990s.¹⁾ She has a music degree, teaches students, plays gigs, and records albums/CDs.²⁾

Barbara came north with her band Cover Girls and when the band broke up, she moved to Whitehorse. She and Pam and Bernie Phillips and Manfred Janssen then formed Agents of Chaos.³⁾

Chamberlin has been responsible for a music movement in Whitehorse. She came up with the idea for Yukon Women in Music (YWIM) and, in 1999, was a founding member along with Nicole Edwards, Anne Louise Genest, Lucy Desaulnier, and others. This was in the same year she helped start Music Yukon. She filled in for Rachael Grantham in 2004 and later became the official choir conductor of the Whitehorse Community Choir's women's, men's, and mixed choirs. She arranges or writes the coral music.⁴⁾

Chamberlin plays saxophone, flute, piano, guitar and sings and loves singing, writing and performing.⁵⁾ Her folk/blues album Sanctuary (2000) was nominated for a West Coast Music award. Walking with Ghosts (2005) is a mix of pop, folk, rock, and country. Of Ice and Men was released in 2009 and Boomerang Girl was released in 2014 under the nom de guerre of Queenie and the B’s.⁶⁾