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“Navigating our complicated world is hard but made a little easier by Gauthier.” The Sun
“Mary Gauthier has become recognised as one of the finest singer-songwriters of our time” Americana-UK
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter and accomplished author, Mary Gauthier is to tour the UK and Ireland in October and November, with Jaimee Harris as special guest. Gauthier, whose live shows are widely considered “unmissable”, will play dates as follows:
October
Sunday 19 EDINBURGH Queen’s Hall
Tuesday 21 GLASGOW St Luke’s
Wednesday 22 BELFAST Mandela Hall
Thursday 23 CORK Curtis Auditorium @ The School of Music
Sunday 26 SLIGO Sligo Live Fest. Hawk’s Well Theatre
Monday 27 GALWAY Town Hall Theatre
Tuesday 28 DUN LAOGHAIRE Pavilion Theatre
Wednesday 29 DUN LAOGHAIRE Pavilion Theatre
November
Saturday 01 LIVERPOOL Tung Auditorium
Sunday 02 NEWCASTLE Gosforth Civic Centre
Tuesday 04 LEEDS City Varieties
Wednesday 05 POCKLINGTON Arts Centre
Thursday 06 NOTTINGHAM Metronome
Saturday 08 LONDON Kings Place
Tickets: www.marygauthier.com/tour
About Mary Gauthier:
What out lesbian moves to Nashville at 40 to start a troubadour career? Who goes from playing open mics to playing the Newport Folk Festival in one year’s time?
From a crib at St. Vincent’s Women and Infants Asylum in New Orleans to being walked onto the Grand Ole Opry stage by Marty Stuart. From spending the opening night of her restaurant drunk in a Dorchester, MA. jail cell to hearing her song “I Drink” on Bob Dylan’s “Theme Time Radio Show.” From serving Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings oyster po-boys at her Cajun restaurant in Boston to sharing a booking agent and festival stages with the incredible duo. From spending her 18th birthday sitting in a Salina, KS jail cell to standing next to John Prine at the GRAMMYs. What reads as a screenplay for a Hollywood blockbuster is a life actually lived by groundbreaking troubadour Mary Gauthier.
It’s been 25 years since Mary Gauthier, now revered songwriter, released her groundbreaking debut albumDrag Queens in Limousines. Eighteen months after this record was released, the response was so incredible that she hung up her chef’s coat, moved to Nashville, and started to make her mark as an exciting new voice in the songwriting world.
For over thirty years, Mary Gauthier has turned to songs and stories to help her untangle the traumatic mysteries of her life — most notably adoption trauma and addiction. Not long after getting sober, she began to use songwriting as a superhighway to find purpose in her life. Her recent book “Saved by a Song”, excerpts from which will feature in these shows, was named as a “must read” by Rolling Stone Magazine.
By writing about what matters most to her, having the courage to sing what’s often too hard for us to say, and delivering the work authentically, Mary Gauthier opened the gate and widened the path that many who came after her have travelled.