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Description
Palo Verde House Concerts presents
Mary Gauthier with Jaimee Harris
Friday, April 25, 2025
5:30: Doors
6:00: Performance
8:00: Curfew
Palo Verde House Concerts welcomes the return of Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and author Mary Gauthier with special guest Jaimee Harris.
Your $35 donation to the performers reserves your seat (fees apply).
Special $100 "Hang with Mary" tickets available: come early for preferred seating and a chance to spend time with Mary. Limited to 10. Entry at 5PM day of show.
This is not a potluck, but feel free to bring your own beverages and snacks. No outside chairs*. Small coolers (that fit under a chair) fine. Additional information including the exact location will be emailed three days prior to the event.
*Please let us know if you have any special needs for accessibility or comfort by emailing michaelbookstalent@gmail.com.
About the Artists:
Mary Gauthier: As she has so eloquently accomplished over the past 25 years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has used her art once again to traverse the uncharted waters of the past few years. Thankfully, amid dark storms of pandemic loss, she found and followed the beacon of new love: Her gift to us, her latest record, Dark Enough to See the Stars, collects ten sparkling jewels of Gauthier songcraft reflecting both love and loss.
Her eleventh album, Dark Enough to See the Stars, follows the profound antidote to trauma, Rifles & Rosary Beads, her 2018 collaborative work with wounded Iraq war veterans. It garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album and nomination for Album of the Year by the Americana Music Association. Publication of her first book, Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting, in 2021, brought her more praise. Brandi Carlile has said, “Mary’s songwriting speaks to the tender aspects of our humanness. We need her voice in times like these more than we ever have.” The Associated Press called Gauthier “one of the best songwriters of her generation.”
Mary Gauthier’s songwriting brilliance offers beauty in sorrow, healing in loss, and a perspective only an artist of uncommon generosity can give.
Jaimee Harris: Jaimee Harris’s sophomore effort Boomerang Town marks a bold step forward for this country-folk-leaning singer-songwriter. It is an arresting, ambitious song-cycle that explores the generational arc of family, the stranglehold of addiction, and the fragile ties that bind us together as Americans.
Harris began cultivating Boomerang Town in 2016, a time of great loss for many in the Americana community, with the songwriter losing several musicians close to her. A shift in the nation’s political landscape had ushered in a new level of cultural polarization and for someone who grew up in a small town outside of Waco, Texas, Harris believed the values instilled by her parents were not entirely in line with how many were viewing, and vilifying, Christians. As a person in recovery, Harris has had to re-evaluate her own connection to faith and find strength in a higher power. It was from the intersection of these social, personal, and political currents that the album was born.
While themes of addiction and grief permeate sections of the record, it echoes hope in the face of the darkness. Out February 17th, Boomerang Town understands that love and grief are two sides of the same coin.
https://www.jaimeeharris.com/home
Date & Time
Fri, Apr 25, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Venue Details
Private Home in Rolando (near SDSU)
San Diego, California 92115