Mary Gauthier, Jaimee Harris
This event is in the past
Sunday, November 8, 2020, 9 pm
Doug Fir Lounge
Buckman (Portland)
sold out
Everything about Mary Gauthier is astonishing. The openly gay Nashville songwriter got her first major label record deal at age 42. Her raw folk songs often address the addiction, abandonment, houselessness, and complete emotional devastation she experienced in her younger years. Gauthier wrote her 2018 album, Rifles and Rosary Beads, as part of the Songwriting with Soldiers program, which pairs wounded veterans with songwriters who help put their experiences to music. It’s a gutting chronicle of physical and emotional trauma, survivor’s guilt, and America’s systemic failures to adequately care for its soldiers once they return home from war.
CIARA DOLAN
CIARA DOLAN