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Greetings! Thank you for visiting Patti’s site, whether you’re checking back in or you’re here for the first time.
There is a lot going on, but…priorities! Charities, especially those dealing with animal welfare, need help more than ever. So, for the month of June, Patti is donating 50% of revenue from downloads of “Old Man” (the “Dog” song) to the Central Vermont Humane Society. Actually, you will be donating, because the price is…well, whatever you feel like paying. Go to the “recordings” page to get all the details.
Also, check out the YouTube video of Old Man recorded live in Cabot, Vermont.
It’s been a busy year – as of January 2009, Patti joined the ranks of the Woods Tea Co. fulltime, and yowza, are they busy! Please visit their site sometime at www.woodstea.net to get the whole picture. Patti spent most of last year touring with them out west and around New England, getting to know their music and them, and what a great match they all found. Touring with Woods Tea is allowing Patti to play a lot more flute and guitar, as well as singing, of course, and trying her skills at Irish step dancing.
The stint with the Bluegrass Gospel Project was a very rewarding 7 years. A strong vein of mountain gospel influence continues to run through in her current writing, and the stray murder ballad still sneaks in through the back porch door, left ajar for just such colorful characters.
Patti also still performs some solo shows and has found some delightful work as one third of the trio Bootleg, backing up dancer extraordinaire Ann Whiting around New England, as well as an all-too-occasional show with Front Range founding member Bob Amos and central Vermont’s own Colin McCaffrey. And for dessert, sometimes she gets to play with Pete Sutherland.
Patti is closing in on a new album of original material. We know she takes longer than most artists between releases, but she’s very picky about the songs she writes and doesn’t record them until they are just right, so there you go. Sign up for her newsletter or RSS feed. As some of the new songs get recorded, she’ll put them up for streaming so you can hear some of the raw cuts.
