Feminist Music Legends Reunite for Beachland Concert
2026-06-25
Thu 6/25 @ 7PM
Singer/songwriter Teresa Trull release her debut album The Ways a Woman Can Be in 1977 on the prominent lesbian-oriented feminist label, Olivia Records, founded in 1973 during the second-wave feminist movement when women were become more outspoken about the ways they wanted to be. She was just 19 at the time. She released several more albums and produced dozens more before retiring to become a horse trainer in New Zealand.
Barbara Higbie is a pianist, violinist and composer who was the first woman instrumentalist signed to the Windham Hill label, known for its soothing, ambient instrumental (“new age”) recordings, in the early 1980s. With albums featuring beautiful nature scenes and titles like Solstice, her music fits the Windham Hill aesthetic. Unlike Trull, she has continued to perform, record and tour on a regular basis.
Her path crossed with Trull’s in the early 1980s, when they record an album together called Unexpected on Second Wave Records, an Olivia subsidiary, which combined Trull’s bluesy vocals with Higbie’s instrumental prowess. Later, in 1998, they reunited to record and release Playtime.
Now Trull is taking a break from her New Zealand horse farm and has returned to the stage for a 44th anniversary reunion tour with Higbie in support of their new Best of album. That tour will bring them to the Beachland Ballroom this week. They’ll be joined by special guests, NYC-based jazz/R&B singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Nedra Johnson and Black lesbian comedian Karen Williams.
It’s a fully seated show, since this is listening music. Go here for tickets.
beachlandballroom.com/shows/barbara-higbie-and-teresa-trull
