Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and accomplished author Mary Gauthier is to tour the UK and Ireland in October and November with Jaimee Harris as a special guest. Gauthier’s backstory is an extraordinary one, with many contradictions. One goes 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. Another 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.” Another, serving Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings oyster po-boys at her Cajun restaurant in Boston and then sharing a booking agent and festival stages with the duo, or, indeed, spending her 18th birthday sitting in a Salina, KS, jail cell before years later standing next to John Prine at the Grammys.
All these things are true, and it’s now been 25 years since Mary Gauthier released her debut album “Drag Queens in Limousines”. Eighteen months after the record was released, she hung up her chef’s coat, moved to Nashville, and started to make her mark as a new voice in the songwriting world. For over 30 years, Gauthier has turned to songs and stories to help her untangle the traumas of her life — most notably adoption and addiction. Not long after getting sober, she began to use songwriting to find purpose. Her recent book “Saved by a Song”, excerpts from which will feature in these shows, was named a “must read” by Rolling Stone Magazine. Her live shows are widely considered “unmissable”, and an AUK review of a show last year can be found here.
Tickets for the all the shows are available from this link.
Mary Gauthier 2025 Dates:
Sunday 19 Oct – EDINBURGH Queen’s Hall
Tuesday 21 Oct – GLASGOW St Luke’s
Wednesday 22 Oct – BELFAST Mandela Hall
Thursday 23 Oct – CORK Curtis Auditorium @ The School of Music
Sunday 26 Oct – SLIGO Sligo Live Fest. Hawk’s Well Theatre
Monday 27 Oct – GALWAY Town Hall Theatre
Tuesday 28 Oct – DUN LAOGHAIRE Pavilion Theatre
Wednesday 29 Oct – DUN LAOGHAIRE Pavilion Theatre
Saturday 01 Nov – LIVERPOOL Tung Auditorium
Sunday 02 Nov – NEWCASTLE Gosforth Civic Theatre
Tuesday 04 Nov – LEEDS City Varieties
Wednesday 05 Nov – POCKLINGTON Arts Centre
Thursday 06 Nov – NOTTINGHAM Metronome
Saturday 08 Nov – LONDON Kings Place
