Mary Gauthier announces career retrospective shows 2024, with special guest Jaimee Harris

Mary Gauthier Announces Career Retrospective Shows 2024,

with Special Guest Jaimee Harris

UK AND IRELAND TOUR IN APRIL/MAY

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter and accomplished author, Mary Gauthier has announced a very special tour for the UK and Ireland in April and May 2024. In these unique, career retrospective shows, Mary will perform a selection of audience favourites from all eleven of her studio records, accompanied by her partner, Jaimee Harris, who will also open the shows.
Like the troubadours of old, Mary will sing her much loved songs under the spotlight, telling stories of her thirty years of performing her own music around the world, an experience that has helped her understand and personally experience the redemptive power of songs and songwriting. The dates are as follows:

Mary Gauthier Career Retrospective Show 2024, with Special Guest Jaimee Harris

Weds 10 April 2024 - The Mac, Belfast (10 Exchange St West, Belfast BT1 2NJ)

Thurs 11 April 2024 - Pavilion Theatre,  Dún Laoghaire (Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire)  

Friday 12 April 2024 - Cyprus Avenue, Cork (Caroline Street, Cork Ireland)  

Saturday 13 April 2024 - Séamus Ennis Centre,  Naul                                  
Sunday 14 April 2024 - Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo (Temple Street, Sligo F91 CFY7)                                 
Tuesday 16 April 2024 - Campbell’s Tavern, Headford                         
Thursday 18 April 2024 - The Stables, Milton Keynes (Jim Marshall Auditorium, The Stables, Stockwell Ln, Wavendon MK17 8LU)               
Friday 19 April 2024 - Gosforth Civic Theatre, Gosforth (Regent Farm Road, Tyne & Wear NE3 3HD)                          
Saturday 20 April 2024 - St. Nicholas’ Church, Beverley (Holme Church Lane, Beverley HU17 0QP)                           
Sunday 21 April 2024 – Metronome, Nottingham (Marco Island, Huntingdon Street NG1 1AP)                     
Tuesday 23 April 2024 - Philharmonic Music Room, Liverpool (Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9BP | Music Room, Entrance on Sugnall Street)                      
Wednesday 24 April 2024 - St. Lawrence’s Church, Biddulph (Congleton Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST8 7RG)                        
Thursday 25 April 2024 - St. Luke’s, Glasgow (Calton 17 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2JZ) 
Friday 26 April 2024 - Trades Club, Hebden Bridge (Holme Street, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 8EE)  – sold out
Saturday 27 April 2024 - Trades Club, Hebden Bridge   
Sunday 28 April 2024 - Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (17 York Road, Kings Heath B14 7SA)           
Friday 3 May 2024 - Kings Palace, London (90 York Way, London, N1 9AG)                            
Tickets on sale now: https://tix.to/mgUKTour2024ME

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 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.

Carrying on Woody Guthrie’s legacy, Mary continues to inspire audiences around the world with the simple idea that a guitar and a song are the strongest of steady weapons on the path to both personal and universal freedom.
Her latest, acclaimed album Dark Enough To See The Stars was released to glowing reviews in 2022, including The Sun who said: “Navigating our complicated world is hard but made a little easier by Gauthier.”  And Entertainment Focus, who declared Mary “One of the great storytellers and songwriters of our age.” 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.

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. Music and song helped her heal from the wounds that made her an addict. She then used her personal experience to help wounded veterans and their families tell their stories in song. 

Photo credit: Alexa Kinigopoulos

Thirty-four years sober now, Mary brings her long-term recovery to the stage in this special show to talk about alchemy, redemption, and the art of songwriting as a form of salvation.

I’m a troubadour. Troubadouring is an approach, not necessarily a genre. Inside the word “troubadour,” I hear the word “true.” 

Troubadours tell true stories, true to feeling, not fact. People need stories to make meaning out of their lives and songs are how most people get their stories these days. Modern-day troubadours are self-perceived outsiders who write songs about underdogs, unnoticed or marginalized folks, and struggles not often heard in mainstream music. In an age of misinformation, disinformation, and lies, we are the wandering minstrels who compose and perform songs to tell truths. And like the stories of old, songs help teach us ow to live, and why. 
I’ve played in dozens of countries and listened to thousands of people’s stories, heard late-night confessions and held strangers in my arms as they wept. No matter a person’s nationality, age, race, religion, or lack of religion, human emotion is the same everywhere I go.

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ABOUT Jaimee Harris

Her sophomore effort BOOMERANG TOWN (released 17 Feb 2023 ) marked a bold step forward for this country-folk-leaning singer-songwriter. It is an arresting, ambitious song-cycle that explores the generational arc of family, the stranglehold of addiction, and the fragile ties that bind us together as Americans.

Harris began cultivating Boomerang Town in 2016, a time of great loss for many in the Americana community, with the songwriter losing several musicians close to her. A shift in the nation’s political landscape had ushered in a new level of cultural polarization and for someone who grew up in a small town outside of Waco, Texas, Harris believed the values instilled by her parents were not entirely in line with how many were viewing, and vilifying, Christians. As a person in recovery, Harris has had to re-evaluate her own connection to faith and find strength in a higher power. It was from the intersection of these social, personal, and political currents that the album was born.
While themes of addiction and grief permeate sections of the record, it echoes hope in the face of the darkness. Boomerang Town understands that love and grief are two sides of the same coin. FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM