Doors will open at 6:30pm. Tickets will be $23 at the door.
Six albums, more than a dozen years of recording and touring, and a slew of industry awards haven't stopped MARY GAUTHIER, in fact, we don't think anything could stop her. Her troubled youth sent her down a path where, at 15, she stole her adoptive parents' car, spent her 18th birthday in jail, and was kicked out of the state of Kansas. Soon after she enrolled at LSU, then left LSU, and eventually ended up in Boston running a soul food restaurant which she also soon left. But she soon found solace in music and songwriting.
Her debut album, Dixie Kitchen (1997), named after her restaurant, helped her to be nominated for Best New Contemporary Folk Artist at the Boston Music Awards. Mary's second release, Drag Queens in Limousines (1999), broke her career and won her awards like Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song at the first annual Independent Music Awards and Best Country Music Artist at the GLAMA’s (Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards). Her third CD, Filth & Fire (2002) was named Best Indy CD Of The Year by Jon Pareles of the New York Times and the Best Singer/Songwriter Album Of The Year by No Depression. With her next album, Mercy Now (2005) she joined the prestigious Lost Highway label, home to Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, and Ryan Adams and appeared on a score of year-end “Best Of” lists, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Billboard, and No Depression. Mary was named New/Emerging Artist Of The Year at the annual Americana Music Association Awards, and Bob Dylan included “I Drink” on his “Theme Time Radio Hour” program.
Mary's newest album, The Foundling, is a classic concept album that tells "the story of a kid abandoned at birth who spent a year in an orphanage and was adopted, who ran away from the adopted home and ended up in show business, who searched for birth parents late in life and found one and was rejected, and who came through the other side of all of this still believing in love.” Mary's emotional and passionate songs along with their eclectic musical backing are sure to answer some of life's looming questions while always moving us, the listener, to ask more.
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