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Pat Lavery's Bio Pat Lavery developed an early interest in music, largely due to constant exposure to his sister’s rock and roll band rehearsing in the attic of his childhood home. He first learned to play the harmonica from his grandfather – an instrument that he still enjoys playing today. He sang - from the age of 6 – participating in talent shows and various school functions. He also performed small roles in school and community theaters throughout grade school and into high school. Pat began playing acoustic guitar when he was ten years old and electric bass at age thirteen. He also began to sing lead vocals in local bands in northwestern Connecticut.      After high school, Pat deferred his plans to attend college and, instead, moved to Austin, TX to play bass in his sister’s rhythm and blues band. He remained in Austin for several years also playing in country bands, finally deciding to return to the northeast and attend college. Pat then moved back to Connecticut, enrolled in Western Connecticut State University and earned his Bachelors degree in music in 1989. While there, he studied bass with Dr. Lyn Christie, and classical voice with Lois Grebosky. As a student, Pat supplemented his income playing in a variety of different local bands while he also began to delve into recording.      Following graduation, Pat began teaching and freelancing as a musician, allowing him the chance to learn to play in a variety of different styles including reggae, funk, straight ahead jazz, rock and roll, commercial smooth jazz and avant-garde jam band freakouts. Pat’s interest in recording, production and composition also developed more fully in the early 1990’s when he collaboratively scored, with his partner Chris Ingram, several documentaries for PBS. Pat also began a partnership with smooth jazz guitarist Brian Tarquin, recording a CD with him. His work with Brian Tarquin also led to writing projects for MTV networks and other television music libraries that can still be heard on cable sports shows, soap operas and prime time network shows today.      In 1998, Pat also started Sparky Music Labs and began recording and producing CD projects, most notably Phil Forbes’ CD entitled, “At the End of the Beginning” and ex-Neville Brothers sideman Renard Boissiere’s debut CD. He also produced countless demos for local bands, including songwriter Christopher Robin and Tom Tom Club singer Mystic Bowie. Pat also played bass in Mystic Bowie’s reggae band for the next 6 years, affording him the chance to work with former Talking Heads members, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, as well as award winning engineer Doug McKean on Mystic Bowie’s “Rebirth” CD.      Currently, Pat is writing music for a new CD and performing as a solo singer/guitarist, as well as playing bass and singing with Renard Boissiere’s Freelance Pallbearers, The Christopher Robin Band, Spontaneous Combustion, and the Celtic/Americana duo Sheebeg and Sheemore. He is also currently mixing former Sheebeg and Sheemore singer Lisa Furman’s as-yet-untitled 1st CD, which was recorded at Sparky Labs.

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