Nashville musician Gabe Lee will be performing live in concert Saturday, presented by The Barn Concert Series. Holley Rumbarger, a native of Hattiesburg, will be opening for Lee.

Equal parts classic songwriter and modern-day storyteller, Lee has built his own bridge between country, folk and rock. He has been collecting stories for years, both onstage and off.

“I used to bartend, which means I was also a cheap therapist for whomever happened to be sitting on the barstool,” Lee said. “Whether they were there to celebrate or drink away their problems, I heard about whatever they were going through. It was my job to have that face-to-face interaction—that connection. Being a full-time musician isn’t much different.”

With critically-acclaimed albums like 2019’s “farmland,” 2020’s “Honky-Tonk Hell,” and 2022’s “The Hometown Kid,” Lee created that connection by delivering his own stories to an ever-growing audience.

Lee’s fourth record, “Drink the River,” takes a different approach. This time, he isn’t offering listeners a peek into his internal world; he’s holding up a mirror to reflect their own.

Raised by Taiwanese parents in Nashville, Tennessee, Lee left home during his teenage years and headed to Indiana, where he obtained college degrees in literature and journalism. Lee launched his career as a genre-bending musician after returning to Tennessee, quickly progressing from dive bar gigs to high-profile opening slots (including shows with Jason Isbell, Los Lobos, Molly Tuttle,and other artists who, like him, blurred the lines between roots-rock, country, and other forms of American folk music) to his own headlining shows.

Through it all, Lee drew upon the narrative skills he’d sharpened as a student. If albums like “Honky-Tonk Hell” and “The Hometown Kid” often unfolded like autobiographical entries from his road journal, then “Drink the River” shows an even broader range of his storytelling abilities.

Lee isn’t just writing songs about himself; he’s writing songs about everyone. And maybe, in doing so, he can bring everyone a little closer together.

Lee will have Rachel Coats and Lucciana Costa on dobro and bass join him to perform as a trio Saturday night.

Mississippian Holley Rumbarger will be opening the show. Holley’s music defines her experiences in love and life in the Deep South but knows no true genre. Perhaps something akin to folk or Americana. She dabbles in a cornucopia of sound, not limited to country or pop, soul or rock.

Her original music is intrinsically personal and ever-adaptive, illustrative and illuminative of her life, love, losses, and lessons.

Barn concerts provide free food and beverages for the audience and place a donation jar near the food tent to raise money for a local cause or charity. Saturday’s concert will benefit Main Street Columbus efforts to put up ceiling fans at the Hitching Lot Farmers’ Market.

“Barbara Bigelow with Main Street told us that people who take part in the weekly farmers’ market are always talking about the heat,” Barn Concert promoter Steve Ellis said. “ We thought it would be a great idea to get our audience to pitch in and help support the cause.”

Ellis said the concert Saturday night will have plenty of electric fans around the venue to keep the audience as comfortable as possible during the show.

“We’ll have a lot of fans and plenty of cold beverages, so don’t let the heat deter you from coming out to hear these very talented artists,” he said.

Parking and the free dinner starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, with music beginning at 7 p.m. The concerts are located at 136 Mac Davis Road in New Hope and tickets are available at barnconcertseries.com.