Pat has given numerous children's concerts throughout the VailValley and in Denver, singing songs from her album to her youngest fans. This album has become a favorite in preschoolsacross the country and was selected as the children's album of the summer by the TatteredCover Bookstore in Denver. The birth of her daughter, Hilary, inspired Pat to compose children's songs, which led toher second album, "Lullabyes and Other Songs", a gentle collection of original and coversongs loved by children and adults alike. The album features anoriginal song by Hamilton, "The Christmas Infant", a new Christmas classic which has becomea Vail favorite. In 1989, Pat made her first album, a Christmas album of familiar and not so familiar songsentitled "Christmas in Vail, with Pat Hamilton and Peter Vavra". Her music remained a hobby until she moved to Vail, Colorado and beganperforming in its bars, restaurants and lodges to earn her living. After she graduated, she taught school in Minnesota, then moved to Colorado and worked asa reporter.
Pat attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where she majored in Englishand French, and sang and entertained on an informal basis, solo as well as in a female duo. In high school, she bought her first guitar, and after fewinstructions from a friend who played in a local band, she began playing, singing andcomposing folk-oriented songs. She began singing at the topof her lungs while sailing through the air upon her swing, wrote her first song in first grade,and formed her first singing trio the same year, giving a unique performance of an ElvisPresley song to the second graders. She was born and raised in asmall town in northwestern Minnesota, in the Red River Valley. Pat Hamilton is a singer-songwriter-guitarist, living in the Rocky Mountains near Vail,Colorado, with her husband David and her daughter Hilary. Excludes: Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Mauritius, Zambia, Reunion, Cape Verde Islands, Chad, Mozambique, Gambia, Guinea, Eritrea, Mauritania, Kenya, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Egypt, Djibouti, Benin, Botswana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Mayotte, Central African Republic, Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon Republic, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Angola, Ethiopia, Congo, Republic of the, Seychelles, Namibia, Somalia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Tunisia, South Africa, Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Niger, Rwanda, Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Western Sahara, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Mali, Burkina Faso, Swaziland, Morocco, Libya, Saint Helena, Maldives, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Armenia, Bhutan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Korea, South, Russian Federation, China, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Dominica, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, Belize, El Salvador, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Honduras, Anguilla, Barbados, Haiti, Nicaragua, Cayman Islands, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands (U.S.2014 Forest Hills Drive (Expli CD music PAT HAMILTON Biography