Mary Gauthier w/Virtual Concert Series
10/29/2010
In celebration of National Adoption Month, the acclaimed singer and adoptee will premiere a series of performance videos throughout the month of November on YouTube. Based on her sixth album, The Foundling, the 10-part virtual concept concert series will chronicle the album’s narrative tale of Gauthier’s trials and ultimate triumph as an adopted child herself.
By Blurt Staff
Filmed and produced by Jack Ballo at Ultravision, this is the first video series of its kind to premiere on YouTube. The original album itself was written and recorded over the course of two years and was produced in Toronto by Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies, of whom Gauthier notes, “Mike understood my story and was able to create a musical landscape that captures the nuances of the narrative.” Of the album’s genesis, Gauthier adds, “I envisioned writing a song cycle about relinquishment and adoption, but for years the songs I was trying to write didn’t have an emotional center. When I found my mother, I found the emotional center of the album, as well as the explanation for the ‘orphan feeling’ I’d lived with since I was a child. It turns out that this feeling is universal, and hearing other people’s stories, adopted or not, has made me realize that this was the record I was born to make.”
The first video, for “The Foundling,” is available here:
www.youtube.com/user/thefoundlingfilms
THE FOUNDLING VIRTUAL CONCERT SERIES
Available Now “The Foundling”
November 1 “Mama Here, Mama Gone”
November 4 “Goodbye”
November 8 “Sideshow”
November 11 “Blood is Blood”
November 15 “March 11, 1962″
November 18 “Walk in the Water”
November 22 “Sweet Words”
November 25 “The Orphan King”
November 29 “Another Day Borrowed