Patti Cobb

Patti Cobb: Vocals, keyboards, guitar, recorder, percussion, fiddle. Patti has loved music all her life. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, she is a member of acoustic rock trio Tonal Recall, pianist for Scottish, English, and contra dance bands StringFire!, The Odd Sundays English Garage Band, and The Humuhumunukunukuapua'a & Strathspey Society Band. She has played in acoustic groups with singer/ songwriters David Gans, Sam Pointer, and Ted Czuk. While earning her music degree, Patti sang with the UC Berkeley Collegium Musicum, the SF Chamber Singers and at Renaissance Faires. Then she began playing in local rock and blues bands including Slanted House, Blue Monday, The Nightcaps, Absolon, Boogieman, Lookin’ For the Good, and Brazen Hussy & the Blue Hearts. Backing her brother, noted Bay Area guitarist Chris Cobb, gave Patti the opportunity to play with many fine musicians, including blues legend Ruth Brown. A love of folk music has allowed Patti to play for Scottish, English, and contra Dancing with stellar fiddlers such as Keith Smity, Chris Duncan, John Taylor, Deby Benton-Grosjean and Shira Kammen. She has released three CDs with StringFire!, one with Slanted House, and she has been featured on CDs by Ted Czuk, Michael John, The Harkenbacks and Stony Point.

Oakland, CA