Lucky Clark On Music: Barney Martin
Singer, songwriter, actor, comedian to perform livestreaming concert March 20 from Johnson Hall.
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Barney Martin
I like surprises of all kinds, and this week’s column features a recent chat I had with one Barney Martin, who was ready to give me a few good surprises in the 42-minute conversation from his home in Scarborough. I had learned that he would be putting on a livestreaming concert for Johnson Hall from Mike Miclon a couple of weeks ago, so I requested a telephone interview with Mr. Martin and discovered that I was already aware of him but not in the way I expected. It seems that he was in a trio cover band called Coos Canyon and was also a part of another trio, a comedy one, called The Maine Hysterical Society for 12 years and who appeared on TV a number of years ago, and those were the first of the unexpected things I learned about the man a lot of people may know in a lot of different ways. After the phone connection was mad