Bridget Kearney is an American musician and songwriter.
22 Facts About Bridget Kearney
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Bridget Kearney is a founding member of the band Lake Street Dive and winner of the 2005 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Jazz category.
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Bridget Kearney's grandmothers, Ellen and Vickey, were both musicians; Ellen Kearney, to whom she credits her preternatural love of low tones, played the upright bass, while Vickey, a vocalist, was a touring musician with the "Tangen Sisters".
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Bridget Kearney started her journey with music in the Lutheran Church's Cherub choir.
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Bridget Kearney took piano lessons at the age of 5 and began playing bass in the 4th grade.
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Bridget Kearney listened to her parents' rock and roll records from the 1960s and gained an appreciation of the Beatles' music.
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Bridget Kearney fronted the band playing electric bass and singing lead vocals.
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Already an accomplished and devoted bass player at a young age, Bridget Kearney played electric bass through junior high school, after which her interest in jazz music and the sounds she wanted to create guided her toward playing more upright or double bass until about age 35 when Bridget Kearney began to acquire a number of electric bass guitars and other gear to expand her sound and versatility.
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Bridget Kearney has credited Paul Chambers, Charles Mingus and Charlie Haden as some of her main influences from her jazz study period.
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Bridget Kearney earned a Bachelors of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music in Jazz Studies and a Bachelors of Arts from Tufts University in English.
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Bridget Kearney often seeks adventure on the road, like surfing in Mexico and bungee jumping in New Zealand, and is a master of chipology.
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Bridget Kearney is a skilled songwriting and instrumental instructor who taught private lessons online for charity and taught songwriting to larger classes online with "School of Song", a community-concept based songwriting school with rotating instructors where she was a student.
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Bridget Kearney has co-taught a songwriting class with Paul Muldoon at Princeton University.
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, Bridget Kearney has been part of the revolution as a follower, participant, contributor, and leader, increasingly relying on her musical prowess to deliver contributions in popular, world, independent, and, experimental music.
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Bridget Kearney parlayed most advances in music production and distribution technology, including social media, to expand her craft, for her personal enjoyment, and to help others in production of their own music by contributing production elements.
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Bridget Kearney is a founding member of Lake Street Dive, which was founded in 2004 and started touring in 2007.
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Bridget Kearney has appeared with Lake Street Dive on many national shows: The Colbert Report, The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, National Public Radio, Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor and on Live From Here hosted by Chris Thile.
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Bridget Kearney has appeared as a solo performer and worked with a varying array of other musicians, producers and performers to create her own recordings, videos, and, tours, at times solely performing her own music under her own name.
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Bridget Kearney launched the band BB Wisely with Benjamin Lazar Davis and Will Graefe in August 2022.
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Bridget Kearney was a major songwriter and stand up bass player for Joy Kills Sorrow from 2005 to 2012.
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Bridget Kearney has written songs for and played with Cuddle Magic.
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Bridget Kearney has played live, written for, and recorded with, a host of acts as a collaborator and backing musician, including Rodney Crowell, Ed Sheeran, Aoife O'Donovan, Margaret Glaspy, Bella White, and Brazilian singer Tiago Iorc.