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June 11, 2026
Thursday, June 11th - 7:00 PM at Tractor Tavern | Join Us
KBCS is proud to bring you an evening twenty years in the making. On June 11 at Tractor Tavern, Mary Gauthier brings her Seattle audience twenty years of Mercy Now, an album that arrived when it was needed and has never stopped being needed since. This is not a nostalgia tour. It is an invitation to sit with songs that give sorrow a shape, a name, and ultimately a way forward.
About the Artist
Mary Gauthier
Twenty years ago Mary Gauthier released Mercy Now. It was not a comfortable album. Instead, it was an honest one.
Grammy nominated and widely regarded as one of America's most compelling songwriters, Gauthier has built a career on stories that don't look away. Her writing is raw, precise and deeply human — the kind that finds beauty in sorrow and healing in loss. As 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."
Over the years her songs have earned recordings from Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Kathy Mattea, Boy George, Jimmy Buffett, Vince Gill, and Bettye LaVette among others. Additionally her work has appeared in Yellowstone and ABC's Nashville, and St. Martin's Press published her memoir Saved by a Song. Along the way she has received honors from the Americana Music Association, the International Folk Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards, the GLAMA Awards, and the UK Americana Association. Each one recognizes an artist who has never once written a song she didn't mean.
Now in 2026, Gauthier returns to Mercy Now not to look back but to take stock. In her own words, "reflecting on these ten songs feels more like standing still long enough to appreciate the grace that brought them into existence." Furthermore the vinyl re-release and this tour are not a celebration of the past. Rather they are proof that some songs only get more necessary with time.
"Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now."
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Doors open at 6:00 PM
Show starts at 7:00 PM