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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Patti Parks

A Soul Blues Performer and Vizztone Records Recording Artist

Patti Parks has found a way to match her love for blues with her life’s most meaningful work – one of the best examples of the well-worn cliché that music is a healing force. She is the embodiment of it.” —Making a Scene, album review by Jim Hynes

Patti’s Last album ,” Whole Nother World” produced by American Blues Man Kenny Neal and recorded in Baton Rouge Louisana. Neal also performed with Patti on all tracks with the Neal family as well as a duet “ Baby Bee” . Album “Whole Nother World” climbed Blues Radio Charts worldwide, including SiriusXM Radio, and received glowing reviews in major publications. In addition to being a touring musician, Patti is also a nurse and the creator of the “Nurs’n Blues” education program, which she developed to help high-risk children , and adults with chemical dependency at rehab centers. As an artists, nurse, and a mother of an afflicted soul, she feels the pain of others and stays true to herself by making healing music. Patti is a survivor who has lived through her own tragedies and come out the other side because of the healing power of the Music.

Winning Honors, Festivals and Hearts

Patti was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame and recognized for the program she founded called Nurs‘n Blues. Her first album, “Cheat’n Man,” received outstanding reviews from Blues Music Magazines such as “Blues Blast Magazine.” Her band has performed in many major festivals, including the National Women in the Blues Showcase, the Blues ‘n March Festival, Ellicottville Blues Festival, Niagara Thunder, Kalamazoo Music Festival and the Northeast Jazz Festival, Crossroads Blues Festival, Bluesberry Music Festival

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