Savage Patty
The Boulder-based band Savage Patty has entertained Colorado audiences for several years, playing a fun, upbeat, ecclectic collection of all original music with influences of folk, rock, bluegrass, blues, and some may even say funk. Mutt-rock, we like to call it. It gets people dancing from age 2 to 110, and beyond!
After coming together in it's first incarnation in 1997, Savage Patty's first album was released in 2000. In 2005, in it's second incarnation, they conclude a hiatus from performing, returning to the stage in support of their second album, "Big Happy Family".
According to the Estes Park Trail Gazette: "the songs of Savage Patty feature soulful lyrics weaving stories of joy, of pain, of relationships gone bad and of friendships that endure. They reveal an eccentric take on life, adding a flair to this music that is refreshingly original."
The group's instrumentation includes voice, electric, acoustic, and lap steel guitars, viola, bass, drums, mandolin, banjo, and keyboards.
"(There is) something raw and earthy about this little band. I am pretty sure that there might be some vegetarians, but I would not be surprised if they were all cannibals. It is folky rock and roll with a little country and some rollicking good times mixed in this stew. Uh oh, I must be hungry again." -Jay Bianchi, Quixote's True Blue, Denver, CO
For booking and promotional information email patty@savagepatty.com.
Tim Davis
Songwriter Tim Davis, with his own quirkiness and eccentricity, hopes that his music reveals a deep respect for life in all it's beauty and pain, celebrating that respect through emotion and fun. Helping people let go and share the moment is the ultimate goal of this mix of ballads to dance-your-socks-off energized numbers. He has been obsessed with songwriting for 25 years and what keeps his drive to write is the mystery and beauty that each new song can bring. When he asked why he still writes so much, his reply is "songwriting is addictive", and he is an addictive personality. He also jokes that he has always been into quantity, not quality, but some of us know better.
Patty Machen
From the atomic city of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Patty Machen (violin and viola), is a veteran of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and has learned to take the sound of the fiddle "into the ditch". She has add the growl of rock and the sultry punch of funk to here previous range of classical refinement and bluegrass melody. Her main influences of Beethoven and the Grateful Dead contribute to the orinality of the music, and her main inspiration (besides mother nature with all it's soft, puffy clouds) comes from seeing her kids rock out to it!
Marty Humphreys
Born and raised in a music-loving family in southeastern Michigan, he cannot remember a time before singing. At the age of 9, after 3 years of lessons, he successfully thwarted a piano career. He began playing cornet in school band at age 10, continuing through the marching & symphony bands (cornet, baritone & mellophone) at Waterford Kettering High (1979-1982). By the age of 15 he was too cool for brass instruments and picked up the electric guitar. Fortunately, his 'coolness' decreased sufficiently to begin playing cornet again with Savage Patty. In 1993 he got his first mandolin and in 1997 began learning the lap steel guitar. He is grateful to all the musicians he has been blessed to play with, especially Tim Davis and Patty Machen.
- Michigan
- Hex Torment-1982-1984
- Iced-1985
- Colorado
- Life O'Reilly -1989-1991
- Bigfoot & the Prehistoric Dogs -1996-1997
- Danny Shafer Band - 1998-1999
- Savage Patty (including Eyeless View & Downwind) - 1991-Present
Jason Pawlina
Jason has been playing drums, percussion and singing with bands in Colorado since the early 1990's in such groups as Legba, Doc Vegas, Danny Shafer Band, All-Night Honky-Tong All-Stars and Aces & Eights. In addition to playing with Savage Patty, Jason is a current member of the Unknown Americans, the Jamestown Anti-Fascist Marching Band and 'Folk Yeah!' His playing ranges in style from hard rock to honky-tonk, second line, American folk and African. He is from Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Shawn Cupolo
Originally from New Jersey, Shawn Cupolo started out his music career playing in various blues and rock bands on the East Coast. He has been featured on the Blues In The Night television program in New York City, and radio shows on WDHA (NJ’s largest rock station) and WNTI (Northwest NJ Free-Form Radio). Working with a variety of bands and musical projects in Colorado since 1998, he has opened for Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and has been featured in live performance on radio shows at KGNU and KBFR. As a member of rock bands such as Hotfoot and The Broken Everly’s, he has performed in many of Colorado’s top local music venues, including The Fox Theatre, The Bluebird Theater and Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom. He also appears occasionally in the “at-large” acoustic blues & folk duo Dogtooth Canyon, with Portland-based songwriter Matt Meighan.
Linda Flinkman
Linda has pursued her deep love of music for over three decades. She has worked as a film composer's apprentice, a sound editor, music teacher, and is a board-certified music therapist. She has played keyboards and recorded with more than a dozen artists. She believes strongly that playing music, singing, improvising, composing, listening and moving to music can heal the body, mind and soul. She is a spirit forever moved by jazz & classical music, an uncured fan of the Grateful Dead and a pianist inspired especially by such players as Professor Longhair and Dr. John.
Peter Stokes
Peter Stokes is a performer who appears around the western US and Canada. His powerful voice, bizarre guitar style and high energy level set him somewhat apart in the realm of acoustic music. These days he is semi-retired though he plays bass with Savage Patty and Kimmerjae Macarus (despite his best efforts to wreck his finger tendons rock climbing). He lives on the Colorado front range where he runs one of the few affordable and honest auto repair services. He teaches bass and does studio work.
Kevin Babcock
Kevin is a native of Boulder, Colorado and has performed, recorded and taught banjo for many years. If one overlooks the questionable legality of his involvement with the banjo, it's easy to appreciate his contribution to the acoustic side of Savage Patty's, sound as well as the gritty twist he gives to blues, rock and funk tunes. He is a long-time member of Boulder County's own Sugarloaf String Band