Hi Friend,
I hope that you all have a great week ahead! Thanks for being on this journey with me.
November 2021 | 🎟 Tickets to our November shows + Sundays With Mary
Hi Friend,
Hello from beautiful Kingston, NY where the weather has turned chilly and fireplaces are now lit. We loved spending a few days here at The Hotel Kinsley, resting in a beautiful room on our day off, and enjoying a fantastic meal in the cafe. If you are ever out here near Woodstock I highly recommend this hotel. It's a real gem located in a renovated historic building with gorgeous rooms.
Huge thank you to Nashville News Channel 4 and Lauren Lowrey for running this story on me a few days ago, grateful for your support! "Grace and Grit: Songwriter looks inward to give hope and healing in new book."
We will continue down the road in November and December, playing rescheduled shows from 2020. We are especially excited to return to the Atlanta area for two shows in December. You can check out all of our upcoming shows on the tour page. Each venue has their own Covid policies. All are requiring either proof of vaccination or negative test results.
In author world, the Saved by a Song audiobook is available now. It was really fun for me to read and play some songs for the audiobook. We still have special signed copies of the book available on my web store, as well. Visit the book page to order your limited edition autographed copy of Saved By A Song.
It was also exciting for me to participate in another story of transformational songwriting by accompanying the OutHaus Films documentary Invisible for its New York City premiere. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped it win the NewFest Audience Award for Best Documentary. Check out the photos below.
By popular request, Sundays With Mary returns this month! I hope you can join Jaimee and me live with special guests on November 14th and 28th at 2 PM, CDT.
📖 There is a limited quantity of signed hardcover copies of Saved By A Song available now on my website. Get yours today.
🎵 The Saved by a Song audiobook is also available now!
It's an honor to be a part of this documentary that moves an untold story forward. Invisible tells the powerful story of LGBTQ+ songwriters who have successfully navigated the male-dominated landscape of southern music. These women have all helped open doors for other LGBTQ+ songwriters in country/southern music by leaning into the things that makes a great songwriter a great songwriter: authenticity, using a unique voice, empathy, struggle, and going towards the hard stuff others would prefer to turn away from. They did/do so not without sacrifice.
The songs they put out into the world do what great songs do. They tap into the universal human experience. They help us ALL - regardless of sexual preference, gender, economic status - by articulating what we can not say for ourselves.
Thank you to everyone who made it out to the premiere in New York City on 10.22 or streamed this film. We won the New Fest audience award for Best Documentary!
🎟 TOUR DATES
DOWN THE ROAD
11.4-11.5
TULSA, OK
WOODY GUTHRIE CENTER
TICKETS
11.6
KANSAS CITY, MO
KNUCKLEHEADS SALOON
TICKETS
11.7
BELLE PLAINE, KS
TREEFEST
TICKETS
11.11
NASHVILLE, TN
THE BLUEBIRD CAFE
TICKETS
11.13
HOPKINSVILLE, KY
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
TICKETS
11.19
SARASOTA, FL
FOGARTYVILLE
TICKETS
11.20
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
ABDO NEW RIVER ROOM
TICKETS
11.22
TAMPA, FL
STRAZ CENTER
TICKETS
12.3
DECATUR, GA
EDDIE'S ATTIC
TICKETS
12.4
FAIRBURN, GA
BOUCKAERT FARM
TICKETS
Sundays With Mary returns this month. Join us on Facebook and Youtube on November 14th & 28th at 2pm CDT. We will play new songs, take requests, and I will read from my book. Looking forward to hanging with y'all again online!
October 2021 | Saved by a Song Audiobook + Tickets 🎟 to our October shows!
September 2021 Newsletter | 🎟 Get tickets to the September shows!
There are limited edition signed hardcover copies of the book available now on my website! Limited edition, and limited quantity - So buy a copy now!
🎟 TOUR DATES
DOWN THE ROAD
09.04
MARTINSVILLE, OH
TICKETS
09.10
ANN ARBOR, MI
TICKETS
09.16
SEATTLE, WA
TICKETS
09.17
PORTLAND, OR
TICKETS
09.23
RED RIVER, NM
TICKETS
10.01-03
SISTERS, OR
TICKETS
10.08-11
COULTERVILLE, CA
TICKETS
10.12
FELTON, CA
TICKETS
10.16
SEBASTOPOL, CA
TICKETS
10.26
PIERMONT, NY
TICKETS
10.27
ALBANY, NY
TICKETS
10.30
PLYMOUTH, MA
TICKETS
10.31
NEW YORK, NY
TICKETS
August 2021 Newsletter | 🙌 Tour dates to look forward to in September!
Hi Friend,
As we get closer to the end of the Summer, I'm excited for the opportunity to continue to play live shows in front of a live audience. We hope to see you when we travel West in September & October! Check out upcoming shows on the tour page.
There are still some special signed copies of my book Saved by a Song too. Visit the book page to order your limited edition autographed copy!
There are limited edition signed hardcover copies of the book available now on my website! Limited edition, and limited quantity - So buy a copy now!
Every page of Saved by a Song sings with wisdom refracted through a lifetime of faltering steps forward and resounds with the healing and transformative power of music.
—NO DEPRESSION
🎟 TOUR DATES
DOWN THE ROAD
08.15
SUNDAYS WITH MARY
2PM CDT
08.26
TONDER, DENMARK
TICKETS
09.04
MARTINSVILLE, OH
TICKETS
09.10
ANN ARBOR, MI
TICKETS
09.16
SEATTLE, WA
TICKETS
09.17
PORTLAND, OR
TICKETS
09.23
RED RIVER, NM
TICKETS
10.01-03
SISTERS, OR
TICKETS
10.08-11
COULTERVILLE, CA
TICKETS
10.12
FELTON, CA
TICKETS
10.16
SEBASTOPOL, CA
TICKETS
10.26
PIERMONT, NY
TICKETS
10.27
ALBANY, NY
TICKETS
10.30
PLYMOUTH, MA
TICKETS
10.31
NEW YORK, NY
TICKETS
I wanna send a huge thank you to all the songwriters who joined me last week for our in-person, fully-vaccinated, three-day writing retreat at Thistle Farms.The courage each writer brought to the workshop was what made the work soar. I am so proud of each and every one of these beautiful songwriters! A huge thank you to John Hiatt, Gretchen Peters, and Beth Nielsen Chapman for being my guests, and Lydia for making it all come together! Write on!
July 2021 Newsletter | 📈 The press is in for "Saved by a Song" - Thank you all!
Hi Friend,
It's been a week since Saved by a Song hit the shelves! I've received so many wonderful messages, and so many great reviews too. Thank you all for making my authorial debut special. Below, you can see what folks are saying about the book...
Visit the book page to order your limited edition autographed copy!
There are a whole bunch of tour dates in the books too. Check out upcoming shows on the tour page!
There are limited edition signed hardcover copies of the book available now on my website! Limited edition, and limited quantity - So buy a copy now!
CBC q Interview with Tom Power
LISTEN HERE
Saved by a Song is a true expression of the inseparability of songwriting, spiritual practice, recovery and relationship that have been endemic to Gauthier’s 25-year career. Think Anne Lamott meets Julia Cameron meets Patti Smith. Anyone who can still write from the heart about writing from the heart after being in the music business as long as Gauthier has is the real deal. Her book invites seasoned artists to deeper authenticity, new artists to deeper craft and all readers to deeper self-reflection.
—BOOKPAGE
Every page of Saved by a Song sings with wisdom refracted through a lifetime of faltering steps forward and resounds with the healing and transformative power of music.
—NO DEPRESSION
July 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us
—MS MAGAZINE
Gauthier has never been the kind of writer to shy away from difficult subjects in her songs. She’s tackled substance abuse, growing up as a “lonely queer kid in a screwed-up family” and, with help from United States veterans on 2018’s Grammy Nominated Rifles and Rosary Beads, the experience of war. It’s no surprise that her book expresses the same level of candor.
—NASHVILLE SCENE
.. [an] intimate, riveting memoir… This emotional narrative will leave readers spent, but rooting for Gauthier to prevail. Her lyrics dig deeply into the human condition, and her explanations leave little room for complacency.
—LIBRARY JOURNAL
21 new books to keep your summer reading going strong.
—LIT HUB
Saved by a Song is no ordinary book about the craft of songwriting, but rather a thoughtful meditation by one of the finest practitioners around on what makes a song matter and the hard lessons she’s learned. This is a treasure of a book as well as a love letter to songs and songwriters and the people who listen to them.
—BOOKLIST
New Releases: July 2021
—LGBTQ READS
Finding Emotional Truth: April 2016
“Extracting the true from the false is at the core of songwriting, and even when the writer works through fantasy and fiction, (and most of us do) emotional truth is the right basis of it. It’s paradoxical, but oftentimes the best way to demonstrate emotional truth is through made up tales. We use melody and metaphor to point to experiences that there are no words for.
