When you hear Los Angeles- based music duo Dauzat St. Marie refer to their shows in Ruston as “homecoming shows,” they aren’t speaking in a figurative manner. Not only did the duo form in Ruston when members Mat Dauzat and Heather St. Marie met while attending Louisiana Tech University, Mat is a Lincoln General Hospital-born Ruston native. “ We love coming home to play Ruston because at our shows elsewhere in the world, we are ‘Dauzat St. Marie.’ At our shows in Ruston, we are just ‘hometown Mat and Heather,’” said Dauzat. “ Our homecoming shows have a unique energy all their own because the crowds consist primarily of long-time friends and die-hard supporters … many of whom have been with us since day one.” The name Dauzat St. Marie has been circulating quite far and wide these past several years through heavyweight touring with some heavyweight artists. Known for their lockstep vocal harmonies and catchy, yet thoughtprovoking songwriting, the singer/songwriter troubadours have kept the name Dauzat St. Marie popping up all over the U.S. by touring as main support for Grammy Award winning heartthrob Rick Springfield’s “Stripped Down” solo acoustic show series for the past five years and peppered in dates with The Marshall Tucker Band, Lindsay Ell, Schuyler Fisk / Sissy Spacek, and Rick Derringer. Most recently, Dauzat St. Marie toured the U.S. as support for legendary music icons Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. For the duo, 2020 was shaping up to be a monumental year. They kicked it off with a performance at Los Angeles’s iconic Dodger Stadium for the Komen “More Than Pink” Walk. Then the duo began preparing for their biggest tour to date – the support slot on the summer arena tour with Rick Springfield and one of the world’s
