Pat Kay
at Atomic Lounge

May 24th, 2025
5:30pm - 8:00pm

Pat Kay is a singer, songwriter, storyteller, multi-instrumentalist perpetuating Ozark music tradition. The performances are composed of songs spanning over 100 years of history, with a few from last week. Many are Kay's originals, and many more are from a bygone era. Much of the latter refrains and melodies that once filled the barns of our ancestors on Saturday and again in churches on Sunday are an endangered species. These tunes were kept alive in our homes for centuries through oral tradition. Before radio arrived, it was all we had, and each generation made their own contribution of new ideas, lyrics, and entire new songs to the collection. Celebrating what it was then isn't enough. Pat found his life's work picking up right where we left off and tending his own garden of these songs... humbled by the notion of being their caretaker long enough to see them passed on to our children's children.