“Once, this woman dreams,

She holds cosmic dust and breathes

In awe, life responds”

–Modern Metaphysical Haiku

Every once in awhile you run into someone with a knack for living, someone who just ‘lives’. And it’s not always quiet or pretty or perfect. But most of the time it is. And even when it’s not, you know it is just something better about to happen.

Patti Holladay is that person. When she decides it’s time to write, she writes; time to act – she acts; time to sing…well, she’s always singing, actually. But in late 2008, she decided it was time to RECORD.

So with her friends in the Blue Hills Trio, and arranger/saxophonist Daniel Williams and trumpeter Phil Marnell, she went into the studio at Earthshaking Music and emerged months later with producer chops, her own record label, and her debut CD, “All Or Nothing At All”.

Since then, she’s acted in plays, been featured as a soloist with bands and orchestras, and produced her labels second CD – the debut album of her son, Sam Holladay, which is due out in late August, 2010. And in September, Patti lets her inner Patsy Cline out and shines, along with Karen Reutz, in a two-woman show, “Always, Patsy Cline”, a Stageworks Theatre production at the Grand Theatre in Cartersville, Georgia.

Here’s Patti singing ‘How Long Has This Been Goin On’, from her CD, “All Or Nothing At All”

 

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