Singer-songwriter Mary McBride burst onto the U.S. touring circuit when she released her debut album, “Everything Seemed Alright,” produced by Lou Whitney. The album immediately drew critical praise and the attention of Grammy award winner Delbert McClinton, who asked her to join his tour. Mary’s second release, “By Any Other Name,” featuring co-writes with Dan Baird (Georgia Satellites) and Steve Wynn (the Dream Syndicate) brought her more critical acclaim. HARP MAGAZINE called it “a masterpiece, impeccable in every crevice.” McBride’s third album, “Every Day Is A Holiday,” described as “fun and flirty” in PEOPLE and “soulful” in the BOSTON GLOBE, featured a duet of “Do You Hear What I Hear” with actor/singer Patrick Wilson. Mary has performed over 500 live shows in the US and Europe, including 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. Mary performed “No One’s Gonna Love You like Me” on-screen and on the soundtrack of the Academy-award winning film Brokeback Mountain, along with tracks from Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Rufus Wainwright, Steve Earle and others. McBride was chosen by Elton John to sing at the 35th Anniversary Concert of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” and her songs have also been featured on episodes of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Her song (co-written with Dan Baird) “Would it Kill You?” was recorded by the Yayhoos for their 2006 release "Put Your Hammer Down." McBride is currently writing the score for a new musical, The Nitpicker, directed by Tony award winner Scott Ellis. 

"The Way Home," her fourth album, produced by Lou Whitney and featuring horn arrangements by legendary saxophonist Charlie Chalmers, who wrote arrangements and played sax on some of the greatest hits of Aretha Franklin, Jerry Lee Lewis and Wilson Pickett, was released on June 22, 2010. As part of the release of "The Way Home," Mary launched THE HOME TOUR in the summer of 2010. Hailed by ELLE as "one of the year's most influential music moments and the summer's most altruistic tour," THE HOME TOUR brought Mary and her band to play at "places people call home" - including supported housing communities, long-term health care centers, homeless shelters, homes for people living with HIV/AIDS and homes for people living with mental and physical disabilities. They played for the elderly in Washington, DC; for Navajo families living in supported housing in New Mexico; for children in the Treme' district in New Orleans; for a farm worker community in rural Washington State; for veterans recovering from injuries and living indefinitely at a VA hospital in Long Beach, CA. And these were just a handful of their stops. The band partnered with not-for-profit organization in each city which hosted the community-based concerts. Plans are underway for THE HOME TOUR to take place again in the summer of 2011 with expanded partnerships, and a wide roster of artists from around the country. All developments will be posted at www.hometour.org