About The Home Tour
In 2010, singer-songwriter Mary McBride founded THE HOME TOUR to bring musical concerts to the homes of people who otherwise would not have access to live music. Honoring the inherent dignity of all people, The Home Tour travels to "places people call home," including long-term health care centers, homeless shelters, homes in supported housing communities, homes for people living with HIV/AIDS, and homes for people living with mental and physical disabilities.
During the inaugural tour in the summer of 2010, the Home Tour partnered with community-based organizations around the country to perform live shows for a range of audiences, including seniors in Washington, DC; Navajo families living in supported housing in New Mexico; children in the Treme’ district in New Orleans; farm workers in rural Washington State; patients at New Milford Regional Cancer Center in New Milford, CT; and veterans recovering from injuries and living indefinitely at a VA hospital in Long Beach, CA. And these were just a handful of their 40 stops.
In coordination with its national partners Enterprise Community Partners, the Fischl Gornik Foundation, the Gibson Foundation, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and Brite Ideas, the Home Tour is expanding its program in 2011-2012 to include 1) the development of a consortium of organizations in each market; and 2) the full-scale production of a 7-10 day tour in seven U.S. markets and regions: Los Angeles, San Francisco/East Bay, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and the Gulf Coast. In each market, the tour’s network of community-based organizations serve as local partners and ensure that community residents most in need are able to attend. In each market, the Home Tour will include performances by internationally recognized touring musicians, local professional musicians, as well as "residents” from each of the organizations.
About Founder Mary McBride
Mary released four albums – “Everything Seemed Alright,” “By Any Other Name,” “Every Day Is a Holiday,” and "The Way Home." Mary has performed over 500 live shows in the US and Europe, and most recently toured extensively with her band in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Pakistan as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Mary received significant acclaim for her performance of “No One’s Gonna Love You like Me” on-screen and on the soundtrack of the Academy-award winning film Brokeback Mountain, and was also chosen by Elton John to sing at the 35th Anniversary Concert of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” Mary has played tour dates with Blondie, the Indigo Girls, the B52s, Cyndi Lauper, Koko Taylor, Tony Joe White, Delbert McClinton, Joe Cocker, Maria Muldaur, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the late Clarence Gatemouth Brown. Her songs have also been featured on episodes of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. McBride is currently writing the score for a new musical, The Nitpicker, directed by Tony award winner Scott Ellis.
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