Mouths of Babes
Club Passim, 47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA
Mouths of Babes is an award-winning folk-Americana duo known for smart songwriting, tight vocal harmonies, and a rare, intimate connection with their audience. Their band motto, “All the feelings, all the time” is no joke; at shows, fans snort with laughter, cry into their date’s shoulder, and make confessions at the merch table. Fronted by veteran performers Ty Greenstein and Ingrid Elizabeth, the duo delivers the kind of emotionally rich lyricism and disarming humor that keeps audiences leaning forward in their seats from first note to encore. Both artists come from acclaimed musical lineages and storied careers. Before forming Mouths of Babes, Ty and Ingrid toured nationally for years with their respective bands, Girlyman and Coyote Grace, sharing the stage with artists like Dar Williams, Melissa Ferrick, and the Indigo Girls and quickly becoming headliners themselves. The two singer-songwriters met on tour, and when both bands split up around the same time, they didn’t hesitate before combining forces. Now they have distilled the best of the songwriting, musicianship, and humor of their previous groups into what the Huffington Post calls “powerful, romantic, and giddy…a…