Mary Lambert at The Iron Horse

Name: Mary Lambert at The Iron Horse
Start: 2026-06-13T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 18 Center St., Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060

Schedule

Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

18 Center St., Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060 | Northampton, MA

Mary Lambert at The Iron Horse
Saturday, June 13th
VENUE DOORS: 7:00pm / SHOW: 8:00pm
PRE-SHOW BAR/EVENT QUEUE: 6:00pm
Tickets Starting At: $18
includes all fees
prices increase on the day of the event
Mary Lambert is not your typical multi-platinum artist. While studying Music Composition at Cornish College of the Arts, she found a home in the spoken word community of Seattle and began experimenting with infusing poetry into her music, performing frequently as a cellist, singer-songwriter, and poet. Lambert had never released music and was juggling multiple food service jobs when she received a call from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to collaborate on their marriage equality anthem, “Same Love”. Writing and singing the hook to “Same Love” led to an MTV VMA win and two Grammy nominations: Song of The Year and Album of The Year, and culminated in the iconic 2014 Grammys performance, which featured a mass wedding officiated by Queen Latifah and Lambert’s unforgettable duet with Madonna. After the viral success of releasing a standalone version of the song, “She Keeps Me Warm” Lambert shortly signed to Capitol Records. She released Welcome to the Age of My Body, an EP with a re-release of the Top 20 hit “She Keeps Me Warm” and “Body Love”, a spoken-word piece about body image. Later that year, she debuted her first pop song: a tongue-in-cheek single, “Secrets,” that went RIAA Gold and shot to No. 1 on the Billboard Dance charts, which was followed by her debut full-length album, Heart on My Sleeve. Lambert received the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award, The SAMHSA Special Recognition Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for her work on destigmatizing mental illness, and was invited to speak at the UN. She has performed on the Colbert Show, Ellen, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, and the American Music Awards.
Lambert was successful in the eyes of the public; but below the surface, she was struggling with frequent panic attacks and suicidal thoughts. In 2015, she parted ways with formal management and Capitol Records. The desire was to reclaim her independence and to focus her attention on other aspects of her career: poetry, acting, composing, writing, and production. Lambert self-released the joyful indie-pop EP Bold and a self-recorded holiday EP, Happy Holigays under her own label, Tender Heart Records. In 2018, Lambert signed a book deal with Macmillan to release a poetry collection centered around trauma and mental illness called Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across, and she released her sophomore album, Grief Creature, as a complementary work shortly thereafter. Written, produced, and arranged almost entirely by Lambert, the “breaking up with shame” album contains heart-rending adult-pop songs, intense spoken-word tracks, and slick collaborations with musician-friends Macklemore, Julien Baker, Maiah Manser, and Hollis.
In 2021, Lambert was cast in the Netflix animated musical and series, I ♥️ Arlo and Arlo the Alligator Boy alongside Jonathan Van Ness, Tony Hale, Michael J. Woodward, and Jennifer Coolidge, in which her song “Follow Me Home” was nominated for Best Original Song in an Animated Film at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and the series was nominated for a Children’s and Family Emmy. Lambert was also the film composer for 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, a documentary about the weaponization of the word “homosexual” in the bible. 1946 won the Audience Award at Doc NYC and broke records for the most viewed film in the festival’s history. Her original song from 1946, “We Belong” was released as the lead single for her upcoming album. The song details her experience coming out in the evangelical church.
Lambert is working on a new book and facilitates a workshop for body image called Everybody is a Babe. She lives between Seattle and Western Massachusetts with her dog, Georgie. Her third studio album is currently in production.