Announcing the Lake Street Dive Summer Tour 2006!
New material, new outfits, new poster! Don't miss one of the following dates:

Aug. 6th, The Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines IA
Aug. 7th, Katerina's, Chicago IL
Aug. 9th, The 400 Bar, Minneapolis MN
Aug. 10th, French Press Jazz Cafe, St. Paul MN
Aug.11th, The Sanctuary, Iowa City IA
Aug. 12th, The Sanctuary, Iowa City IA

Check the calendar for showtimes and details.

This tour is brought to you in part by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest! A record will follow, with the support of Diskmakers and EMI. Thanks for your generous support!

Artwork by M.S. McDuck
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NEWS: Bridget featured in Boston Globe Sunday Magazine! Read all about it here!

New 1/06 Bridget will be spending the winter and spring studying in Rabat, Morocco!Please write to bridget.kearney@gmail.com if you have any connections in Morocco. It will be a fully new adventure! Forthcoming plans in the States include East Coast gigs for The Bridget Kearney Trio, the Bill Martin Trio in France and the very first Lake Street Dive Midwestern Tour!!

News 8/05 Shanghai is amazing! Enjoying a busy playing schedule with 3 nights a week at the city's hippest jazz venue, JZ Club, 2 nights a week at Cigar Jazz and Wine in the fashionable XinTianDi neighborhood and the occasional hotel or GB gig. Wednesday nights are the best, when Jeremy Udden and I get to showcase our originals at JZ with three vocalists. Last week I played at a televised special event at a mall that had a beach theme. They brought in sand and palm trees to cover the stage and 5 Chinese dancers performed in front of our samba-fied versions of Jobim tunes. Been doing a lot of writing and planning for the year ahead back in Boston. Looking forward to what's on the books for the fall, a night at Zebulon's in San Francisco with Jeremy and New York trombonist Andy Hunter, a weekend in Rochester, NY with trombonist Catie Hickey, the continuation of the Ben and Bridget Brown and Brew series and more recording with my favorite free country band, Lake Street Dive.

NEWS 3/05: Summer 2005, Plans Underway for Touring, Recording and Vending!

Summer Tour: Announcing the Torch Songs Tour 2005! Bridget will be traveling through California and China with Jeremy Udden in celebration of his first record release with the Fresh Sound New Talent Label, "Torch Songs" which will be released in conjunction with the tour and features Bob Brookmeyer, Ben Monder, John Lockwood and Matt Wilson. www.jeremyudden.com

Summer Job: You can also look for Bridget this summer in the historic grandstands of Fenway Park, selling peanuts, crackerjacks and good spirits in the name of the Boston Red Sox! Yankees suck! www.redsox.com

Recordings: Check back soon to listen to a recent flurry of recordings thanks to Scott McDowell at Berklee Studios--lots of new stuff from Lake Street Dive and a promising session from a brand new group with Mark Small on tenor saxophone, Jeremy Udden on alto saxophone and Jason Nazary on drums.

Gigs: Check the calendar for news of Bridget's whereabouts during the spring. Shows coming up soon with Ben and Bridget, The Gabriel Guerrero Trio, Ben Schwendener, James Merenda, Blue Sky Research, The Rebels of Slobia and more!

New Panama Photos! Click here to see photos from the Panama Jazz Festival, Jan. 20-22nd, which featured Bridget, Carmen Staaf, and Richie Barshay (pictured above), Danilo Perez, Jack Dejohnette, John Patitucci, Joe Lovano, Janis Seigel, Charlie Hunter, Peter Kenagy, Allan Chase and more!	New Blue Sky Research Demo! Click here to listen to two brand new recordings of Bridget's tunes "For Michael Moore" and "So Much More." These recordings represent a new phase in BSR's development and feature our newest fabulous member, both as recording engineer and drummer, Adam Clark!	Upcoming Shows! Click here to find out about shows with Lake Street Dive, Blue Sky Research, The All Blues Grass Project, Ben Roseth and more!

NEWS 11/04: Bridget named to NEC Outreach Ensemble Fellowship!

Who: Roland Davis-guitar/ensemble leader, Adam Roberts-tenor saxophone, Josiah Woodson-trumpet/flute, Carmen Staaf-piano, Bridget Kearney-bass, Mike Pfaff-drums/percussion

Take note: This ensemble includes 2 native Iowans, Bridget Kearney and Mike Pfaff. How cool is that?

NEWS 8/04: Recordings from Sax Attack and Blue Sky Research now available! Contact bridget.kearney@gmail.com

Recording for the long awaited debut album from Downbeat Magazine's 2003 Best High School Jazz Combo Sax Attack has just been completed at Iowa City's Petting Zoo Recording facility and preliminary copies are now available!  "Rock Your Face Off" is a compilation of originals and covers including such fan favorites as Lake MacBride and Exit Music. 

Blue Sky Research has released a live recording from a particularly memorable performance at Midnight Cafe in Medford, MA. The self-titled debut features seven original songs by members Camille Jentgen, Sunny Kim and Bridget Kearney. Copies can be ordered by emailing bridget.kearney@gmail.com

About Bridget:
Bridget was born on June 10, 1985 to Joseph and Julie Kearney of Iowa City, IA, and spent the first 12 years of her life perfecting her cow tipping technique. Once that was accomplished, she moved on to the bass--getting her first big break with the Northwest Junior High School Orchestra in 1998. She went on to study classical bass with Diana Gannett and perform as principal bass for the Iowa All-State Orchestra for 2 years. She also performed with the National High School Honors Orchestra in 2003, but by this time, she had become deeply enamored with jazz music and was considering breaking up with classical. This breakup was facilitated and negotiated on both sides by her then-bass teacher, Mark Urness. While this battle continued to ensue, Bridget graduated from West High School, threw her bass, a bag of rice and a red sox t-shirt on her back and departed for Boston, MA to pursue her future. In Boston she began school at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with such jazz mo'fo's as Bob Moses, Danilo Perez, Cecil McBee, John Lockwood, Frank Carlberg, Michael Cain, John McNeil and Jamey Haddad and performed with Joe Lovano(!), and at Tufts University, where she read lots of books and didn't do her math homework. She also took part in workshops with Steve Coleman, Henry Threadgill, Dave Holland and Django Bates. She did her first international performing at the Panama Jazz Festival in Panama City, Panama in January 2005. Later that year she spent 6 weeks in China playing with Jeremy Udden and a delightul array of local musicians!Her triumphant return to the states included gigs in California, New York, Boston and Iowa. In thespring of 2006 she spent 3 and 1/2 months studying in Morocco. She learned the Gimbri from Abdelkadir Amlil, gained 7 lbs. and her Arabic improved signifanctly! Meanwhile, back in The States, her song "Sometimes When I'm Drunk and You're Wearing My Favorite Shirt" was awarded a Grand Prize and Lennon Award in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Hooray! The summer will bring more touring, performing, recording and hanging out with Lake Street Dive, The Bridget Kearney Trio, Joy Kills Sorrow and more!