Born on Canada’s West Coast, Patricia Hammond has lived in the UK since 2001. She has forged a versatile career as a singer, performing opera in Athens and Wexford, oratorio throughout Europe, and ragtime in a 1911 battle bus at the London Transport Museum. Her recordings have been played on BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4, and can be heard on the film soundtrack of Tolkien.
She has written articles for Telegraph Magazine, The Lancet Psychiatry and the Mail on Sunday. From 2013 to 2017 she wrote a music column for Chap, a vintage lifestyle magazine. She has a passion for popular song from the 1910s and finding creative places to perform it. Her first book She Wrote the Songs was published by Valley Press in August 2020.
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