Bridget Kearney is an acoustic bass player and songwriter living in Brooklyn, NY.  She plays and writes for the likes of Lake Street Dive, Joy Kills Sorrow, Cuddle Magic, and occasionally some other bands!  She is the winner of the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for Lake Street Dive's "Sometimes When I'm Drunk and You're Wearing My Favorite Shirt."  She was recently pictured on the front page of The New York Times playing bass in a pink gorilla costume.  Bridget was born and raised in Iowa City, IA and went to college in Boston, MA, studying jazz bass at The New England Conservatory and English at Tufts University.  She has also lived in Shanghai, China and Rabat, Morocco. "I want to go out, empty my pockets of whatever loose change might reside there, and buy up everything in the expansive catalogue of music penned by Kearney. I don't know how she does what she does, but everything that I've heard by this promising young songwriter simply turns to gold, and needs to be heard by the hoi polloi in the cruel harsh world at large." -www.popmatters.com Bridget has performed with: Lake Street Dive, Joy Kills Sorrow, Cuddle Magic, The Sweetback Sisters, Xylopholks, Baby States, Land of Leland, Bird.Fly.Yellow, Miss Tess, Heather Masse, Don Byron, Ben Monder, Tim O'Brien, Bruce Molsky, Darol Anger, Lea Delaria, Sandra Bernhard, Sarah, Jarosz, Wes Corbett, Jacob Jolliff, Adam Larrabee, Jesse Harper, Joe Walsh, Margaret Glaspy, Rachael Price, Noah Preminger, Dan Tepfer, Jo Lawry, Jeremy Udden, Matt Arcara, Emma Beaton, Jon Singer, Carmen Staaf, Michael Winograd, Noam Pikelny, Sean Hutchinson, Coco Zhao Recorded with: Lake Street Dive, Joy Kills Sorrow, Cuddle Magic, Xylopholks, Rachael Price, Shelly Berg, Dean Parks, Omer Klein, Sean Hutchinson, Mache Siebel, Jeremy Udden, Land of Leland, Bird.Fly.Yellow Studied with: Danilo Perez, John McNeil, Jerry Leake, Mark Urness, Diana Gannett, Abdelkadir Amlil Hung out with: Cecil Taylor, Loudon Wainwright III, Jack DeJohnette, Edgar Meyer, Lee Konitz Saw on the street one time: Denzel Washington, Jon Stewart Sold a foam finger to: Tom Brady