Liz Barnez - Musician's magazine chose Barnez as finalist in their Best Unsigned Band Contest. Her song Easy Life was placed on regular rotation on powerful, regional radio station KBCO. The followup to her successful radio debut was a live performance on a Studio C show with KBCO. One of the tracks she recorded at the session, 'Don't Worry' was placed on the second Live from Studio C CD. With an appetite for the sassy sounds of Dixiland music, gospel, blues, R&B and New Orleans funk, and an early singing career at age 17 in a Big Band, Liz has imagineered her own brand of music known as acoustic-swamp-rock. The buzz about Barnez, now performing with her band, spread quickly across the Colorado Rockies. Soon the band was opening for the Subdudes and many other national touring artists all over the Rocky Mountain region. -"Beautifully mainstream...natural... minimum of pretense...her voice is so round and strong, capable of drawing a bead on your tingle spot." Denver Icon. -"A purveyer of folk-funk..." Dirty Linen Magazine -Barnez was awarded Grand Prize Winner in the prestigious Colorado Sound Contest sponsored by radio station KDHT. -The Liz Barnez Band headlined the Best of Colorado stage at the American Music Festival in Winter Park, CO and in 1993 the group was voted Northern Colorado's Favorite Band by readers of The Scene, the regional monthly entertainment magazine. -New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Mainstage -#2 for best album of the year by popular Colorado station KRFC Radio, Ft. Collins (Bob Dylan was number one)