Southwestern Serenade

Patty’s professional singing career started out at John Brown University where she toured for three years with the school’s musical group The Harmonaires ~ Patty and the Harmonaires sang their way across the nation from New York to California ~ Later she sang in the casinos of Nevada as featured vocalist of the Frank Fara show where she gained quite a loyal following of fans in the Reno and Lake Tahoe areas ~ After touring and performing five years across most of Canada and the USA the road became less appealing ~ Patty found herself drawn to the recording studios of Nashville where she was soon tagged “ Music Row’s favorite independent female Record Producer ” by Music Row Magazine

During these creative days Patty was often in Nashville every month producing sessions ~ Artists would call her from as far away as Europe and Australia to see if she would produce their recordings ~ Her amazing global popularity soon caught the ear of CNN Television and the Wall Street Journal ~ both did feature stories on her unique accomplishments in the world of Country music ~ Even as her status as a Record Producer grew ~ her own singing continued to play an essential part in her life ~ She appeared as background vocalist or duet partner on more than 100 Nashville recordings.

Having come full circle ~ Patty feels comfortable ~ again pursuing her own singing as well as partnering on some songwriting with her husband Frank Fara ~ She has appeared at Arizona’s “ Festival of the West ” where she presented Screen legend and Singer Dale Evans with a special tribute song entitled “She Road a Horse Called Buttermilk” ~ Patty also performed in Northern Arizona to sing her recordings of “Song of the Grand Canyon” and “Sedona Serenade” ~ Recently she was in New Mexico for the radio debut of her Santa Fe based Christmas song “La Noche Buena ~ It’s Christmas Eve” ~ The future looks bright for Patty Parker as she and husband Frank Fara continue to introduce their new music and songs of ~ How The West Was Sung ~