a cape breton piper
Barry Shears was born at Glace Bay, Cape Breton in 1956.He was taught to play the bagpipe by Angus MacIntyre a retired coal miner and piper.Highlights of his performance career include a 1983 tour of Nova Scotia and Scotland with Stan Rogers and John Allan Cameron, a 1990 trip to Paris, France,to record a live to air broadcast of Cape Breton music with fellow musicians, Dave MacIsaac, Jerry Holland, and John Morris Rankin.Barry arranged and performed the pipe music for the critically acclaimed Canadian movie 'Margaret's Museum". In addition he has researched and published two musical/historical books on the piping tradition of Cape Breton.