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SUMMARY:Mary Gauthier @ Briggs Opera House
DESCRIPTION:Mary Gauthier \nThursday\, November 8th @ 7:30PM \nBriggs Opera House | White River Junction\, VT \n-Get Tickets and Event Info here- \n\n\n\n\nMary Gauthier’s tenth album\, Rifles and Rosary Beads (Thirty Tigers)\, all eleven songs co-written with and for wounded veterans. Eleven of the nearly four hundred songs that highly accomplished songwriters have co-written as part of Darden Smith’s five-year-old Songwriting With: Soldiers program.None of the soldiers who have participated in the program have taken their own lives\, and there’s nothing trivial about that. Something about writing that song — telling that story — is healing. What Smith calls post-traumatic-growth.\n\nGauthier’s first nine albums presented extraordinary confessional songs\, deeply personal\, profoundly emotional pieces ranging from “I Drink\,” a blunt accounting of addiction\, to “March 11\, 1962\,” the day she was born — and relinquished to an orphanage — to “Worthy\,” in which the singer finally understands she is deserving of love. Maybe that’s where the confessional song cycle ends\, for she has midwifed these eleven new songs in careful collaboration with other souls whose struggle is urgent\, immediate\, and palpable. And none are about her. \nEach song on Rifles and Rosary Beads is a gut punch: deceptively simple and emotionally complex. From the opening “Soldiering On” (“What saves you in the battle/Can kill you at home”) to “Bullet Holes in the Sky” (“They thank me for my service/And wave their little flags/They genuflect on Sundays/And yes\, they’d send us back”)\, to the abject horror of “Iraq\,” and its quiet depiction of a female mechanic’s rape\, each song tells the story of a deeply wounded veteran.
URL:https://pointfm.com/events/mary-gauthier-briggs-opera-house/
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