BIO
Boston-based
Patty Keough grew up in Hudson,
MA, a blue-collar New England town.
Keough worked in the
corporate world for years before deciding to focus full time on songwriting
and performing.
Now, one
of the hardest working indies
in the business, Keough has created a portfolio
of original music and stage skills that delight audiences of all ages.
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1998 - created and began hosting Fearless Open Mic,
Java Hut, Worcester, MA
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1999 - first radio in-studio interview:
WCUW w/Richard Fox
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1999 - chosen as a "New Faces" feature performer at Club Passim,
Cambridge, MA
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1999 Finalist: "Best of Folk", Worcester Phoenix Music Poll
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2000 - created the Est
Fest - a multi-performer, multi-state, yearly benefit event.
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2000 Finalist: "Best of Folk", Worcester Phoenix Music Poll
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2001 released first CD "Watching the World"
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2001 Winner: Worcester Phoenix Music Poll for Best of Folk 2001)
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2001 Winner: Cape Fear Festival Songwriting/Performance
contest, Cape
Fear, NC
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2001 Finalist: Nancy Smith Waage Songwriting Festival,
Dennis, MA
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2001 opened for the Boston Pops, Hyannis, MA
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2001 created and began hosting Wide Open mic at Sit'nBull Pub, Maynard, MA
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2003 feature piece in Folkwaves, WUMB Boston, newsletter.
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2004 Finalist: Founders Festival KCRL Songwriting Competition, SLC Utah.
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2004 Finalist: Nancy Smith Waage Songwriting
Competition, Dennis, MA
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2005 Finalist: Founders Festival KCRL Songwriting Competition, SLC Utah.
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2005 Boston, MA sister-city 9/11 event coordinator
with NYC septemberconcert.org.
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2006 In-studio creating next CD "Nothing to
Hide"
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2006 oh I’m exhausted – 2006 – 2011 to come...