Patrick Bloom w/ Andrea Potts

Art in the cafe...

Members of Red Pine


"Permutations of Red Pine"


September 2026



A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

About Patrick Bloom, Miles Of Music writes: "There is an honesty and generosity in the way Patrick Bloom presents his carefully crafted studies of the human experience. His subjects are not extraordinary. In fact, it is their ordinariness that makes them special. They are stories about you and I."

...and Broadtexter.com writes: "This is the kind of masterful songwriting that you rarely hear these days. You'll hear it in an artists like Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and Steve Earle, and maybe a handful of other contemporary songwriters, but, for the most part, folks with this kind of talent are few and far between."

Patrick is touring in support of his recent release, Moses. Recorded in part with grants from the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, the album has so far reached #9 on the Roots Music Report chart, #14 on the Euro Americana chart, and #6 on the Freeform American Roots chart. Additionally, the album is a featured pick at both CD Baby and Miles Of Music, and has earned Bloom widespread critical praise.

Andrea Potts has been writing songs and performing with a 12-string guitar for 19 years. Her music has immense depth, intriguing rhythms, and intense, beautifully written lyrics. She has perforned for Amnesty International benefit concerts and the Whole Earth Festival in CA, the Sturgis Bike Rally in SD, and in multiple Women's Music Festivals.

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