Pat Wilder, guitar and vocals
Ryan Pesce, guitar
Kirk Bowman, bass
Thatcher Nine, drums

$20 cover; byob.

Blues guitarist and singer Pat Wilder brings it all back home with love for you on Valentine’s Day!

Sultry blues like you love it from the likes of Etta James & Barbara Lynne.

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 Woolworth’s, 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’).” The rest is funky blues history!

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 comes in and brings the delta blues. My favorite record was Mr. Herbie Hancock, so that’s where I got my soul and my urban. Gospel is just a given feeling for me. All of it is rooted in gospel. That’s what keeps it all in balance, too: loving what I’m doing with the music, keeping it all in balance. I don’t know how it works, but it works for me.”

She followed the music when she graduated high school and realized, “playing the guitar was the only thing that satisfied me.” Journeying to her auntie’s juke joint outside of Houston, Texas, Pat played in bands and figured she was doing something right— “I ain’t never seen folks dance like that!” she reminisces.

Her pioneering spirit has led her across the globe, touring in funk, blues, and rock bands over decades of musical exploration. Wilder has been nominated in the Traditional Blues category for a WC Handy Award (now called Blues Music Awards), and received Honorable Mention for the Billboard Songwriting Contest Award in 2009.

Wilder toured worldwide in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 with the Music Maker Revue and her tune “Night Train to Glory” was released on Music Maker’s 2021 compilation “Waiting for a Train: Listener’s Circle Vol. 50.” She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Music Makers Foundation in 2023. Here’s Music Maker’s profile of Wilder and a live video of her performing her original tune, “Hen House.” Pat Wilder has said that working with Music Maker stands among her proudest accomplishments.

“I FEEL FINE JUST LOVING EVERYBODY.”– Pat Wilder

A valentine to you!

$20, byob.
For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733.

Visit https://patwilderlive.com/ for more info!