Barry Bays is a name that most people in the music world are more than familiar with. Having studied music for the majority of his life and taught at a collegiate level for fifteen years, Bays can truly be called a professional, and a well-known one at that.
     Bays has toured and recorded with some of the biggest names in the business, such as Little Dave Thompson, John Mohead, Patrick Weathers, and the Beat Daddys. "I am also on Shawn Lane's Warner Brothers debut album, his new live CD, and two of his videos, " says Bays. Bays' music with Mohead has been featured on many of the nation's top television and radio stations and the daytime series "The Young and the Restless". In addition, he has also been featured on Mississippi Roads twice and presented a Jazz Christmas special for Mississippi Outdoors.
     Bays, who has been teaching at DSU since 1988, also offers private lessons in guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, basic piano, and songwriting.
     Most recently, Bays made highly significant contributions to the book Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control, which he co-authored with Dr. Stephen A. King and Renee Foster, both of DSU. "Rob Bowman (a world-renowned ethnomusicologist) gave the book very high praise...that made me feel great," says Bays. The book is available through both Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.
For more information on Barry Bays visit, his website: www.barrybays.com