January News
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday! I wanted to say thank you again for all of your support in 2019. What a year!
Jaimee, Michele and I loved seeing so many of you on the road this past year, and especially loved hearing the stories from Veterans and their families as we continued to tour in support of Rifles & Rosary Beads, my recent album co-written with combat Veterans and their spouses.
We performed over 100 shows in 2019, and stayed over 300 nights in hotel rooms. We played my first SOLD OUT tour in the UK & Ireland, performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival for the first time, attended the GRAMMYs in Los Angeles, and had the honor of performing at The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts' Millenium Stage in Washington D.C on Veterans Day.
While we were on the road, you continued to support us with sold out shows, a record number of album sales and over 4 million streams on Spotify! Thank you!
In 2019, Rifles & Rosary Beads was nominated for a GRAMMY Award, named Best Album of the Year at the International Folk Music Awards, and I was named International Artist of the Year at the UK Americana Awards in London.
2020 will see me working on my book for St. Martin's Press, doing quite a few tour dates on the West Coast, and plotting my next musical move. It's a grand adventure, and I am forever grateful for your interest in, and support of my work. Onward!
Rifles and rosary beads
You hold on to what you need
Vicodin morphine dreams
Rifles and rosary beads
Yellow smoke orange haze
Blowing into my eyes
Whistling sunset bombs
I couldn't trust the sky
Rifles and rosary beads
You hold on to what you need
Vicodin morphine dreams
Rifles and rosary beads
White knuckles wrapped around
Blackness that has no sounds
Bombed out schools and homes
Kids in the street alone
- "Rifles & Rosary Beads,"
Mary Gauthier & Joe Costello
Mary Gauthier At Folk Alliance International
January 23rd - 25th, 2020
We are excited to return to Folk Alliance International! This year the conference takes place in New Orleans, LA from January 22nd - 26th.
Please find my 2020 Folk Alliance Schedule posted above and visit the link below for more details.
We hope to see you in New Orleans!
January 4th: Austin, TX
Rawhide Trail
SOLD OUT*
January 17-19th: South Walton, FL
30A Songwriters Festival
January 23-25th: New Orleans, LA
Folk Alliance International*
January 30th - February 1st: Nashville, TN
Finding Your Writer's Voice
With Mary Gauthier
Performing Songwriter Workshop
*with Jaimee Harris
Purchase Rifles & Rosary Beads on CD or Vinyl
"You'll be hard-pressed to hear a more powerfully moving work than
Rifles & Rosary Beads - this year, or any other."
-LA TIMES
