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Mary Gauthier, who plays Safety Harbor Arts & Music Center in Safety Harbor, Florida on Jan. 31, 2025.
The 62-year-old songwriter is no stranger to Florida—and will also play Winter Haven’s famed Gram Parsons Derry Down as part of the tour—but this time she’ll be celebrating the 25th anniversary of her sophomore outing, Drag Queens in Limousines.
The album’s title track is a coming of age story for a gay kid living in the south, sadly apropos in a state where the rights of LGBTQ+ citizens are being suppressed with every legislative session. Last week, Gauthier released a brand new video for the song.
“The song speaks to the outsider in all of us, though when I wrote it I had no idea that people of all persuasions from all over the world would relate to feeling like an outsider,” Gauthier has said about the tune.
“Often times when I am singing it I look out into the audience and I see folks who look a whole lot like insiders wholeheartedly relating to the outsider in this song, singing every word. I’ve learned that insiders feel like outsiders sometimes, and high school was hard for an awful lot of people, not just the gay kids.”
Tickets to see Mary Gauthier play Safety Harbor Art & Music Center on Friday, Jan. 31 are available now for $30.
Jaimee Harris, the "next queen of Americana-Folk” according to NPR, opens the show.
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