Abbie Barrett & Mark Lipman: Barside
Doors 5 PM | Music 5:30 PM
Fueled by a pop-rock sensibility, Abbie Barrett’s songwriting is unique and unpredictable—but always something you can sing along to. Her music has been featured in Magnet, American Songwriter, the Boston Herald, Vanyaland, and on CMT’s Cool Album Cuts. In 2015 she received a Boston Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter. Her band plays regularly in the New England area and has opened for notable acts including the B-52s, Juliana Hatfield, The Motels, Will Dailey, and Rhett Miller.
Mark Lipman’s “breathtakingly powerful and arresting tenor voice” (Zachariah Hickman of Josh Ritter) may be the first thing to grab you, but his mix of soberingly honest and dream-inspired lyrics will keep you listening. A skilled songwriter and highly sought-after harmonist, he is known for using his voice to tap into the deeply personal and universally familiar. His 2022 autobiographical release The Glimmer, co-produced with Dave Brophy, has been described as “a beautiful piece of art…so very strong and inspiring” (James Rohr of The Blue Ribbons). An album exploring a psychotherapist’s journey of reclaiming his story as separate from the pathologizing lens of Western psychiatry, it exhibits his hard-earned wisdom and unique zeal for narrative healing. The timely vision for his forthcoming album: to bring language to the complex and underexplored terrain of romantic and platonic relationships between men. Through it, he aims to offer a poignant look into the intersection of personal power, unrequited longing, queer joy, and co-liberation.
Fueled by a pop-rock sensibility, Abbie Barrett’s songwriting is unique and unpredictable—but always something you can sing along to. Her music has been featured in Magnet, American Songwriter, the Boston Herald, Vanyaland, and on CMT’s Cool Album Cuts. In 2015 she received a Boston Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter. Her band plays regularly in the New England area and has opened for notable acts including the B-52s, Juliana Hatfield, The Motels, Will Dailey, and Rhett Miller.
Mark Lipman’s “breathtakingly powerful and arresting tenor voice” (Zachariah Hickman of Josh Ritter) may be the first thing to grab you, but his mix of soberingly honest and dream-inspired lyrics will keep you listening. A skilled songwriter and highly sought-after harmonist, he is known for using his voice to tap into the deeply personal and universally familiar. His 2022 autobiographical release The Glimmer, co-produced with Dave Brophy, has been described as “a beautiful piece of art…so very strong and inspiring” (James Rohr of The Blue Ribbons). An album exploring a psychotherapist’s journey of reclaiming his story as separate from the pathologizing lens of Western psychiatry, it exhibits his hard-earned wisdom and unique zeal for narrative healing. The timely vision for his forthcoming album: to bring language to the complex and underexplored terrain of romantic and platonic relationships between men. Through it, he aims to offer a poignant look into the intersection of personal power, unrequited longing, queer joy, and co-liberation.
