Patrick

Originally from Southern California, PK grew up in LA and Orange Counties. His father, Bill Klausen (link coming for BK music), played ukelele and four-stringed guitar and was a casual musician performing with friends.

Patrick began playing guitar at around ten years old. Blackbird was one of the first tunes he remembers learning. Patrick started playing music for people when high school buddies, Mike Patterson and Joel Easton, invited him to play weekends on the Huntington Beach Pier for people passing by. There were a few garage bands Patrick sang and played bass in around that time like The Rolling Donuts where lots of Neil Young tunes were covered and The Fabulous Kings that was mostly a four piece electrified blues combo.

Patrick moved to Spokane during the last decade of the last century and that's where lots more music was made. There he played solo and duo gigs with Rory Marrero at the Wine Cellar in Coeur d'Alene and with bands Dead Flowers with Steve and Laurie Jackson and Laffin Bones with Neil Elwell and Michael Moonbear.

Patrick started playing the double bass during his time with Laffin Bones, and in the early 2000's PK sang and played upright with Big Red Barn, that combo lasted for nearly 14 years. "That was my most favorite band I've been in" with guitarist Ken Glastre, Charlie Gurche on banjo and dobro, and songwriter and mandolin player Kevin Brown. Big Red Barn played festivals, private parties, and taverns all over the region, and while they were together, released two CDs, "Big Red Barn" and "Barn Again." He also continued his musical interests while on staff with lots of talented folks at Spokane Public Radio for more than 20 years. In 2015 Patrick, dog Iggy, and former wife took off from Spokane on a year-long adventure traveling around the west and southwest in a 23 foot RV. That year, PK played lots of music in taverns, RV parks, and campgrounds while making new friends in something like 10 states.

During 2016 PK became an innkeeper in Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. That's when he began to play House Concerts for guests of the Mountain Rose Inn on a weekly basis. In 2017 he was an innkeeper and continued playing House Concerts at Hacienda del Sol in Taos, New Mexico. And in 2018 he moved to San Juan Island to work as an innkeeper for the Tucker House Inn and Harrison House Suites, where he continues to play music for Inn guests.