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What do you get when you add a guitar, a mandolin, a banjo, an autoharp, a mountain dulcimer and a musical saw to a sturdy pair of clogging shoes and two singing sisters? The Barnard Sisters!

Kara & Pam Barnard were regularly tossed on stage by their Mother's singing group and made several television appearances with them as self proclaimed stage props. Their Mother, Kay Allen is still a performing singer and their late Father, Ralph “Banjo Man” Barnard never passed up the opportunity to be heard by the masses! They proudly lay claim to being descended from a host of bizarre vaudevillian relatives.

Multi-instrumentalists Kara Barnard and Pam Barnard Hays began their sister duo back in 1989 performing regularly at the Daily Grind Coffee House in Nashville Indiana. The two went on to record 3 CDs together, appear in 5 episodes of the PBS series Btown Sounds and open for many national acts including James Taylor, Wynonna, Dave Matthews, REO Speedwagon and Fleetwood Mac on the famed Deer Creek Plaza Stage.

Pam spent several summers with various theaters in Indiana before moving to Washington. D.C. where she was soon working with a comedy improvisation group. Pam currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina and is a reccuring singer of the national anthem for the Charleston Riverdogs & the Charleston Battery. Pam’s favorite role has been portraying Patsy Cline in the musical “Alway’s Patsy Cline”. Most Thursday’s she can be found picking with the Folly Beach Bluegrass Society and belting out a few Patsy tunes.

Kara tours and records with some of the top independent musicians in the country. She's been written about in many magazines including Acoustic Guitar and SingOut! and is currently heard on radio stations from Hawaii to New York.