July 2010, Heading WEST
7 Jul
My friends in the Adoptee Rights Coalition are holding a protest in Louisville this July, as they continue working hard to get our birth certificates unsealed. Adoptees in the US in all but 6 states are not allowed access to our original birth certificates, and we feel it’s way past time to open up the records. More info HERE. It affects me personally, cause I wanna know who my dad is. I want a copy of my original birth certificate, but the state will not give it to me.
Ever wonder about the article that inspired me to write the song The Last Of The Hobo Kings? Here it is in the NY Times Archives. A great story on Steam Train Maury, even if it is his obituary.
Here’s a video link, live footage from the Joe’s Public Theater gig Tania and I did in NYC a few weeks ago. I don’t look too old or too fat, and I am not singing too flat. These are the things I look for in Mary Gauthier Video’s..LOL!
I just got an e-mail from my friend Jason Wilbur who plays guitar for John Prine that the radio interview I did with him is now edited, up and running. He’s not only a great guitar player, he’s a great radio host. Here’s the link to his show, In Search of A Song
On another note, it’s they day before we head out West, and I am ready to roll. I’m starting the next leg of the tour in San Diego July 9th, then two shows in LA on the 10th and 11th, then I work my way up the coast for a couple weeks, ending up in BC at a little folk festival in Duncan, on Vancouver Island. I’ve been home for about two weeks, and thats enough for me. I wanna get going again, get on the plane and go do what I love, play songs for people.
It’s a great time of year to be on the West Coast, and i am looking forward to three days in Santa Cruz and a show there..walks on the beach, great vegetarian food, and re-connecting with friends along the way. I love my job, I love knowing people all over the world, I love being a citizen of the world. I’ve just found out that i be be returning to Australia and Europe in the next few months, and that’s good news to my ears.
I’m trying to be better about taking and posting pictures…here’s a shot from a festival we played outside of LA called Stage Coach. We played the same day as Brooks and Dunn and Toby Keith. I wasn’t sure it was a good idea, me playing that festival…but it worked out great. They ( the big famous Country music Stars) played at night, we played during the day, and everyone got along just fine. Every day is an adventure on the road to God Know Where. It even got me a big feature write up in the LA Times.
More soon…..
Mary
Ed, Mary and Tania Elizabeth/ Stage Coach Festival 2010
Thanks so much for coming to Providence Farm.The venue is a great space for people and music to hang around together for a few days.
Excellent! I look forward to seeing you again soon. I innocently suggest The Koerner Hall at the royal conservatory as a venue for such a show in Toronto. Make it BIG!
Hope the road is treating you well. Well Done!
We will get there soon, I am working on it!
Toronto would have seemed like a place to play already for this Bastard Love tour. And me being from T.O., I have sat back just assuming that you will be making your way here soon. Hugh’s room seems the obvious venue but a nice folk festival was also in my hopes or even a show with the Junkies somewhere………but nothing……
What’s up?
I always knew Mary would make it. She is a surviver like most of us. We all want and should know where we came from. God Bless You Mary. Love Becky