PAT WILDER LIVE - ELECTRONIC PRESS KIT

FOR BOOKING email pat@patwilderlive.com or call 415-286-4875 Pat Wilder was born into a family of artists. San Francisco in the sixties was the backdrop of her childhood. As a hub for the Civil Rights Movement and the home to Haight-Ashbury hippies, SF’s rich culture laid fertile ground for becoming an artist herself. “Music was in my blood,” she recalls. She danced between the piano, the congas, and the plastic guitar her mother bought her from Woolworths, jamming with her harpsichord-strumming, harmonica-humming grandmother. The bluesman Taj Mahal, a family friend, bequeathed Pat her first electric guitar, and taught her his “Ain’t Gwine Whistle Dixie (Anymo’).” Singing and playing simultaneously was difficult at first, so Pat began writing her own songs. “There’s no way to mess up when you’re the one writing it!” Her family home was full of records, and she credits her upbringing with her versatility as a musician; “Being young and having fun, there’s the funkadelic music. Taj