Tonight we will launch my first free online virtual concert from the Live CD release Of Brushwood Lounge: Live and Then Some! We will post the URL on www.facebook.com/patricepike today and it will be open to the public starting at 8:30 p.m. I am so proud to have been a part of this night of music, love, hotness, lush sounds, friendship and celebration in the beautiful town of Murphy’s California. My dear friend and brother from another mother took it upon himself to teach himself video editing, natural cinematography and audio engineering for the purpose of sharing my work and other works of his favorite artists with the world. This labor of love is a testimony to making something outside the typical music industry and how rich and real that can be. This concert also coincides with the release of both Live and Then Some as well as a new EP released today Brushwood 2.5 I hope you will take the time to enjoy this, share with your friends and consider downloading the music from them. Help make independent music sustainable and know you matter so much. I can’t do it without you. Seriously. Thank you. With all my love. Patrice
Patrice Pike Live at the Brushwood Lounge 2
Smiling from a great night of Live Music.
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New Live record coming this Summer, California Dates and Sister 7 Reunion on June 18.
There’s been a lot to write about but I’ve been so in it that I haven’t blogged in a while. The sun is so bright and I’ve been swimming to keep cool like we do here in Austin Texas. I went with friends to the coast and swam incessantly in the ocean, found whole sand dollars, celebrated the passing of a beloved elder, listened to the new mixes for the live record and took a great big deep breath in the middle of all of it. Life is broad strokes, it is remembering to breathe and that there are stars in the vast sky. Kerrville Folkfest was a blast. I really enjoyed being there, walking, being with all kinds of loving people and listening to others music in the deep of the night. I’m about to post a few dates here and there in California from July 17 to the 31st, both house parties and venues. In a couple of weeks I’ll play with my first true musical love of my grown up life, Sister 7 at Antone’s on June 18th, followed by a dinner and music night under the stars with my current band at Verdes Mexicana near Hamilton’s Pool of gorgeousness! Later this summer I’ll be adventuring up the West Coast to Vancouver to celebrate my birthday and just adventure. I want to see something I’ve never seen before. It’s going to be so good.
swimming is a feeling
End of Year to NEW: Transformation
Kali
I had an interesting end of the year. YOU? All the tracks have been recorded for the new release. Listening to them reminds me of so many people, stories, emotions, places, tastes…. I was asked to work with some friends to play in Hells Belles which was something I hadn’t been planning on with all this recording and travel going on. It added another flavor and intention to the end of my year. It was a gift. At first I was like, “Can I really dig in and invest energy and time and be REAL presenting the songs of AC/DC?” I wanted to do it because the women in Hells Belles are hard working, rocking, women in music. I was fascinated and wanted to help them in transition as well as get an inside view from the most intimate place. I had a blast. I decided I would invoke the Goddess Kali: Destroyer, Transformer, Warrior, Feminine Deity. It was fun. I screamed at the top of my lungs and sang things like Hells Belles imagining dragging the most evil in us to the depths of hell to consume and annihilate the things in us that hurt ourselves and others. I defied the idea of a punitive God with songs like Highway to Hell and I celebrated passion with Touch Too Much. I’ve never been in a tribute band. I loved that I got to do it with some of the best people anywhere. Now I’m on to mix the new record and I feel like I worked some stuff out, singing like a banshee and bringing the Rock. It was more than just a gig. That’s my aim, always. Happy New Year! P
beautiful alone….
I’m having a cup of tea. It’s beautiful outside. I’m checking to see if it’s beautiful inside….. of me. Sometimes when things slow down I feel lonely
but I know I’m not alone. I’m just used to go go going all the time. I take a deep breath. I remember that I am free. I choose to be free and I am. Sometimes I think a have to do things all the time. Do you feel that? We don’t have to do things all the time. We can chill. I have had a house full for weeks and it has been good to be with my loved ones. It’s quiet now. I am not playing any shows this weekend. It’s quiet now. I am not alone. I am just not used to quiet. It’s good to feel it and remember….
precious precious unconditional…
patti polinard photographer
Today I am giving gratitude for my Cousin Diane. She is a brave spirit who passed from this world last night. I love her. She cared for me when I was a little girl and was a really special light in the world while she was here on earth. I wanted to write about all the shows I have coming up but it all seems a bit small compared to the passing of her sweet soul and her husband and daughters grieving. Cancer isn’t kind. I’ll write soon about more shows coming up. please check out the sites for that info, but in the meantime, I just want to inspire and encourage anyone reading this to think of those that have loved you, unconditionally in this life. It is a precious precious gift. Love p
The Road, My Birthday, Let’s get together!
Heading out on the road Saturday morning. I’ll miss my peeps on my birthday here in Austin. But I know that Love will surround me and I will appreciate my life more than I have in any year past. Damn! It is amazing all the things we learn. So many opportunities to screw up and to get up and dust yourself off and look back and say, wow! I am so lucky I get to keep going. On that note I want to honor all my loved ones who are not here any more. And yours too for that matter. This life is so precious as hard and as soft as it can be. I hope you will let people know I am coming thier way if you have friends in these places in the mid west. Especially tell Women to go have the experience of a lifetime at the 35th annual Michigan Womyn’s festival. I will celebrate my woodsy freaking birthday there on 600 acres of Michigan forest. You can bet I’ll be in my birthday suit on 8/4. Performing there with Chix Lix ’76 on 8/7! Going to Ft. Smith on 7/24, Memphis (this one’s for you mama) 7/25, Michigan Womyns fest 8/7, Chicago 8/12, St. Louis 8/13, Topeka 8/14, OKC 8/15 and back to wish my little sis happy birthday. Please share with your friends and send them my way. Shout out to all my Leo Brothers and Sisters. Love p
I woke up wanting to make magic today…tonight…sister7
I woke up after a deep sleep this morning and I was having so many visions of people and places from the past and I could see them all linking up to today. Ten years ago I stood on my back porch not knowing if Sister 7 would ever play again. Nine years of my life in that bands music and adventures. I watched the sun come up and finally some tears fell. Tears of Joy and sadness, but mostly awe of all the things I had experienced and I didn’t know what the future would bring. It was amazing and a real trip to go on from there. Tonight we are playing at Antone’s and I want to make magic. Sometimes people begin to go to a place of habit and redundancy. I work hard not to do that. To bring the moment in all it’s potentialamazingness to fruition. Sometimes I don’t do a great job, but when Sister Seven gets together somehow it turns out brilliantly. I can dance, twirl and sing like a banshee or a priestess or a kid all at once. It makes me sad when I hear people say, oh yeah, I haven’t seen you for years. I know what they think. It’s the same old thing. It’s never the same old thing. We are new everyday when we open ourselves to this amazing life. I know that’s why those that do come show up, to hear my poetry and songs and my brothers playing with me. they pay attention and can feel it. My passion is not a thing of the past. It is alive and well today. Even if only 7 people show up tonight. The fire will burn bright! 
You MUST follow your Heart
With all the love and light I can muster I am saying, YOU MUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART. Listen to the music in your soul. KNOW that the food and drink you put in your mouth is like letters you are sending your body. Remember that once upon a time in your ancestral history there was no money. The lifeblood of the earth is pouring into the ocean that I grew up swimming in. The birds and fish are dying and will be for the rest of my lifetime. WE MUST FOLLOW OUR HEARTS. There is NO TIME to waste. NAMASTE’ Patrice
The Story of Grace 1
I woke up. sadness. lonelyness. green trees outside my window in the middle of nowhere. everyday waking up feeling alone and hopeless. I had moved back home from my grandparents. they were moving away to ft. stockton and my mom couldn’t bring herself to give away her guardianship. somewhere in her she knew it wasn’t right for me but I didn’t understand then what ft. stockton might do to a girl like me. all of my creativity was crammed inside my body screaming out in a town where racism and classism was the name of the game. the little tiny trailer where my room like a closet was closing in. I knew I wouldn’t survive in it. I knew I would want to help others like me in the future if I ever got out with my mind and soul in tact…..Music saved my life. Come to the Grace Foundation of Texas Gala Saturday night at La Zona Rosa in Austin TX.
