Award Winning Vocalist Patty Peterson, Induction into Minnesota Music Hall of Fame

[Music] starting now this is real people real issues real news real people I'm Stephanie Allensworth and this is real people this is real people I am here today with patty Peterson from the Peterson family and as you could see we've got this beautiful award here they have been inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame I'm so happy to have patty here with me again she's a returning guest patty hey what an open I mean really seriously it's so much fun to be here again and it's been such a huge year for me as it has been for you since we last met in front of the cameras so great to be with you and thank you so much oh you're so welcome I'm so proud of you there's so much that you've been doing let's let's go into a little bit about it the the Music Hall of Fame right you know actually the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame happened on November 1st 2019 and my siblings Linda Billy Ricki Paul and myself were inducted as well as my sister Linda's son Jason Peterson Dallaire and we had such a marvelous time like a mini family reunion in new home and you know the induction ceremony is on the Friday night and then Saturday they open up the Museum of the artifacts of all of the inductees in New Ulm and you get to go visit the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame and see through the years just to they have inducted from Judy Garland to sounds of blackness to the Steel's to so many more that I can't even name including my mom Jeanie Ehrlich Peterson know and they had artifacts there from her from when she wasn't yes and of course Prince as part of that mix sterling the blenders person against Dylan of course thank you for reminding me yeah but it's worth the drive they have kept this Museum in New Ulm because I asked them why why is he here a lot of people do ask that question because they thought it up oh yeah there you go it's the Polka capital of the world and as it turns out they decided no wait a minute before we make it the Polka Hall of Fame has anybody ever taken the time to do a Hall of Fame for all music in Minnesota they found out nobody had so it's been going strong for a very very long time Wow how long do you know exactly hello no I'm good off the top of my head I think it's about 31 years but I'm not exactly sure so I think it's a good idea to take a day trip down there sometime and it's really really far today well and I think that they've got museum hours every single day actually so Minnesota Music Hall of Fame you can't miss it when you get on the main drag there's a big huge well it looks very much like the Statue and it says Minnesota Music Hall of Fame so there you go okay uh you also just finished that that clip we were playing at the beginning here that's from your new album yes released a new album for Christmas it's a dream come true actually and the music director and arranger Sean Turner I've been working with since he was a kid and he and I have been working together on and off for very very many years he's also the music director for my Barbra Streisand tribute show that I do but we released it in officially December first but it was out a little earlier and it has songs on there that means so much to me it's a holiday album called count your blessings and if people remember that's that incredible song that Bing Crosby sings in is it like Christmas or holiday in one of the two but it's all about when you're troubled and you can't sleep count your blessings instead of sheep so it's a nice message and that's what I recorded it I recorded it on the day that was the 12th anniversary of my major heart and aorta covent last February and I thought well I've got the name for my album because it was so humbling for me to be doing that at that very date at that very moment so there you go very cool yeah well there's more too so the Peterson family got a what is it a part or stage a stage named after dedicated to your family yes we grew up in Richfield Minnesota and both my folks Willie Peterson and Jeanie Arlen Peterson were active musicians and singers and as it turns out they didn't know that they were gonna raise five kids in their home in Richfield who would all end up in the music business we didn't never think about it that way but as it turns out music was the language in our house and my sister always says funny when we're doing an interview she'll say instead of going out to say to what you know that what does your dad do what is your dad play you know so dad was a wonderful keyboardist he was the first organist for the Minnesota Twins in 1961 when the team came to town he was there for six years and when he passed away at an early age my mom Jeanie Erland took over for a few years but they were but they were also staff musicians and singer on WCCO radio and what was exciting about that time as they did the music live but the commercials live too and this was all before 1961 when we say canned music came in which was LPS you know albums so they were very busy with their jobbing business dad was Peggy Lee's piano player you know so many wonderful opportunities and music happened in our lower level of that Richfield home as life went on we all worked with many wonderful people some more internationally known than others and we have received awards we've been very fortunate so being that we are still very connected to Ridgeville my brother Paul has our childhood home when Richfield was going to look to build a new band shell for different performances from church groups to actual concerts going on I was involved in the very beginning and there was gentleman who said you know Patti we're gonna get this stage named after your mom and that was so sweet and it morphed into not just mom but the whole family and that was really an honor that happened in June of this last year and it was such an honor and it's such a beautiful new stage in Veterans Park in Richfield so there you go I was just gonna say it's a Veterans Park that is exactly where it is and there's a plaque on the inside of the stage that you can go see we're dedicated to the Peterson family so isn't that great Minnesota's first family of music I think it says all of those things in there so now you kind of alluded to it a little bit but you have some more performances coming up you've been you've been doing just recently you did your the Peterson family Christmas show that's all right well that's because we do it if there's so many of us how can you possibly keep it straight I don't anyway we did we had a sold-out show at Hopkins Center for the Arts all the siblings were home from tour Ricki just got home from playing with Fleetwood Mac and Billy was in Europe with Ben sitter and a really fun jazz guy and Paul has been touring under the group's name of F deluxe or the Minneapolis funk all-stars and he's got a great presence in Australia and Europe and in America of course - and he'll be very busy coming up in January at the NAMM show as well so in Lynda she divides her time between Europe Palm Springs and the twin cities so we were all in town we included our cousin Russ on this and then we had some of not the next generation because Jason was touring with Michael Bolton and couldn't get off the last date and then the next generation down we called the fourth generation so our grandchildren I did a couple of songs so that was a lot of fun - yeah I tried to get tickets and it was sold out already that's what happens when you wait too long oh my gosh I well you know I we feel so grateful and speaking of which I have to tell you about a song that's on my new Christmas CD this is something that I have this perspective on Christmas morning when I'm looking at my children and then I'm looking at my children's children and the rustling of the paper and the thanks Grammy and pop I love all these things and when I said to my sister who was a wonderful songwriter her name is Linda mm-hm Linda I want to have a song on my album and I know you're the one to write it that talks about the gratitude I have on Christmas morning and the gratitude that I have looking at these kids and all of the memories and the fact that you know my life was spared and here I get to see all of this wonderful life ahead of me and in this room on Christmas morning and so she wrote a song called I am thankful and it's on the CD and it seems to be one of the favorites everybody has so and my grandkids even make a debut on it so there you go very good yeah well I'm the the CD that we have I'm gonna take home with me yes you are so I'll be looking after those and playing them on Christmas so I could because I'll be having my family over so it's actually Saturday - so oh my god we'll be doing that yeah yeah yeah well I hope you like it because it's a labor of love and it was just Shawn Turner and myself and songs we love to do some hymns of course I have a version of Mary did you know on there and I wonder as I wander is on there as well and then some really fun loving songs one that's getting a lot of radio play is have yourself a merry little Christmas and there's also winter wonderland on there and there's no place like home for the holidays so a lot of fun tunes and I feel like it's my legacy this one is just such an incredible CD in that I hope people will pull it out every single year and add it to their family collection absolutely absolutely so now you've got all of those things taken care of but you are a busy woman you never stop and let's talk about what's coming up because you've still got more shows to come and you're doing your Barbra Streisand show I am doing my Barbra Streisand show again I gave it a little rest while it's a tribute show she's got the voice of a queen I mean I'm telling you she was one I would listen to when I'd go to my cousin's house because my mom and dad would play Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson the four freshmen you know and mom also loved Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner but growing up I didn't really own until I was probably 11 years old a Barbra Streisand album but I learned about her and I always thought it was so cool to listen to this woman sing with this interesting Tambor the way she delivered through her nose okay so anyway the which is why she didn't change it exactly and and she was so incredible and I would actually pretend I was putting on a show and I would mouthed the words and say mom here and I would ma the words not sing it so from the time I was about 11 years old and Barbra Streisand third album I've loved her music I've sung it throughout my career so I was encouraged to put together memories the music of Barbra Streisand and it goes through the decades I have Mary Jane home with me my dear friend Amy Lee as well Wayne Cullinan and then my orchestra is Shawn Turner Philco diddle Oh wonderful bassist Tony Axtell and then also the drummer is Peter Hennig and so we're kind of a condensed group but it's a lot of sound and we do anything from her disco era to you know evergreen to funny girl and it's a lot of fun so I've got some shows coming up the Dakota I'm going to try it a nightclub so that's in February and then Becca Chanhassen dinner theater in May and I hope everybody comes so there you go yes what else have you got going I got to tell you this story I grew up in this jazz family but jazz and R&B I've had the good fortune of working in many scenarios that you know I get my rhythm and blues which was the first way I started to sing was over to Franklin and Chaka Khan and in my late 20s I started singing Ella Fitzgerald and a lot of those greats but as it turns out as I performed I noticed that females were maybe one of the horn players in the band or maybe the piano player like my mom growing up but in about 2015 I had a revelation as I was getting ready to perform for the Twin Cities Jazz Festival I called the head honcho Steve heckler and said you know what Steve I have an idea for you and I think it's something we should really consider and that is I think we need an all-female jazz band and he loved the idea and by 2016 the Jazz women all-stars were born mm-hmm so we've done several of the jazz festivals here in the Twin Cities we've played mimd which is the musical instrument museum in Phoenix oh and that is a gorgeous stage and we look to do more things but my goal is to rotate all of the fantastic female jazz artists that we have in town so Mary Louise Knutson on piano John Griffith or Liz Draper on upright bass I have Jenn Dean for Berg Sheila early on drums Kathy Jensen on sax throats on sax I've had lucia Sarmiento young talented saxophonist Elaine Burt on trumpet so the singers ginger Commodore Debby Duncan Connie Evensen myself my sister Linda Lorrie Dakin on piano that's a whole nother story so yeah coming up in January I have Lila Emmons joining me for the very first time at crooner so I keep that busy we perform about four five times a year and it's marvelous and I said to the audience mm you know when you close your eyes and you can listen to them play don't they sound just like women you know and it got a good laugh and I'll tell you why mom said that the ultimate compliment she was this brilliant jazz piano player the ultimate compliment was oh you play just like a man think of the era of course they weren't yeah so anyway these women play the heck out of their instruments and outplay the men who sing like crazy so I really enjoy rotating the positions and there's a lot of people who are coffee honey's got to be part of this Stowe and so many wonderful singers and anyway that's what I keep busy doing I can't stop all the great ideas that I think are coming through me so there you go well I think you just need to keep following following that advice that you're getting yes it's coming through you there's a reason well it's you're getting the passion yeah look how lucky I am isn't this just great oh my gosh it's so much fun so much fun one more group that I'm involved in and we have so much fun is it's like a secondary group of a cabaret group I was in for a very long time know that I'm bringing up Laurie Dakin but we were called the girls for many years but now we have I am woman hear me roar show Laurie doc and on piano and vocals Rachael holder Jude even our who tours with Bobby McFerrin when she's been part of the jazz woman all-stars too and then miss Debbie Duncan so she's our queen of jazz here in town and we do specific shows but the I am woman hear me roar our songs written by women performed by women and so for example Carole King and Annie Lennox and Patti LaBelle I'm you know just to name a few so that goes on periodically and it's all on my website patty Peterson com it's easy to find out what I'm up to so yeah we're actually it's coming in on the lower thirds periodically here so you know I have an easy time to find you oh I'm loving that can I say congratulations to you for all the wonderful work that you have done this show you make a difference Stephanie Allensworth and I want to just say how proud I am of you two so there you go thank you I I just it just came to me as well so I you know I you've got me all dumbfounded now well it's like you know you have me here and you're so lovely to talk about the awards but you are recipient of some pretty incredible awards via what you're doing with this show so I have to take them in and say congratulations we got an award with your show that when we did it you're in your lower level yeah well and that was a lot of fun too because it was a great reminder for me you and me to tell people to live their gift you know we were all born with gifts and sometimes we forget what they are but if you remember when you were seven you knew exactly what you wanted to do and you would dream about what you'd be when you grew up and we forget that we get involved in what everybody else wants so I highly recommend people take the time sit with yourself what are those dreams what is it you want to do and really reaiiy denta fie that because there's three things that I think change and I say this every time your relationships with your coworkers needless to say their relationships with your your friends your family but most important the one with yourself because you're honoring why you were put on this earth so there you go I try to live that life yes to honor honor the why I'm here and so thank you thank you for that you're so welcome in fact if I were to do what I was thinking I would do at 7:00 I'd be a hairdresser right now oh good funny I wanted to be a hairdresser too so I just have to do it when I have to go out for him I guess I wanted to do here and I wanted to be a teacher yeah I I had no idea I would be doing this at all the acting the shows being an agent having my own companies I I had no clue that any of that was possible until much later in life when I finally realized that I I can do whatever I want to do there is a lesson in that and I love that we're talking about this because when we get the idea to do something a lot of people will squish that you know but when we get the idea it takes courage and support to walk into whatever you're envisioning and I think that you exemplify that I think a lot of the crazy dreams I have as far as what do I want to do next I'd like to think that I exemplify that too and it's all about creating excuse me a platform where we can not only show up but also show off people who we believe in and so there there you go I mean this is what you do though well I I show off people I think are really cool and doing really good things and are doing things for the right reasons oh good and yeah that just I just kind of fell onto me and I just picked it up and ran with it my I say to myself or but I tell people that if I can see something in my head yes I can see me doing it in my head and envision it I can do it if I would if I think I'm gonna do something and I just can't get it in my head it's just not going to happen interesting yeah it's a but that's the way it's always been it's like I'm gonna do this I can see myself doing it I go do it well there you go there there it is that's a little words otherwise for all of us exactly right very fun I guess why stop now right and you'll never find me sitting on a swing on a porch retired I'll I'll be kicking and screaming all the way to my grave oh well Alyssa I think that but you do it with compassion though - I mean thank you for what you do it's great absolutely great you and I have another love - yes and we don't ever get to talk about this want to do that sure we got six minutes to talk about it let's get her in well you know what I have fallen in love with spirituality and alternative medicine and for a while when I was a talk show host on WCCO radio those were my two main areas of having guests from Deepak Chopra - and her wild people like that but I lived it because I had an experience with one of my sons being gravely ill with your infections and the delays it created but now I love having integrative medicine in my life I have to call it that because you have a heart condition you take your medications but I support myself with things like essential oils and supplements so that I can be the best me possible and I know that that's where you and I resonate really as well too this is just a great way to live our lives as wholly and fully as we possibly can absolutely and sharing essential oils and holistic medicine and I mean I I try to blog about it aye-aye-aye give oil away all the time - I'm just like come on and you know there's it works I mean there's a reason it's out there and it's a reason it's making a big splash and everybody's trying to copy each other and right and it's making a big splash because it works if you have the high quality stuff that you've got to look for the high quality stuff in the end the information is out there without us name-dropping but yeah I believe that you and I both believe in the right company and we have had some fun with classes and telling people about it because why not choose health we can get so much more done and that's what that's one's about I did you know healthy strong integrative ly let those dreams and those missions come and go forth well especially when you know you and I both have rather busy schedules but I am awfully impressed with yours and if you can stay healthy and keep yourself going to keep yourself healthy you can continue to do this as long as you want to I agree you know I had a good example in my almost 92 year old mother who played until six months before she passed she was vibrant she emulated vibrancy and she chose that and she always said love of God loved a family and love of music is what got her through think love jackets you learn right right exactly that's that that's the one common denominator that is through it all love yourself love everyone else and let's go and let's sometimes let go right yeah well I was with loving yourself right because when right I've been saying this a lot lately and I'm gonna say it again I discovered that when I stopped asking why and why did this happen why why why you know and started asking myself what can I do to change the outcome now instead of why I'm asking what I'm making an action out of it instead of a sympathy or you know a self-deprecating sort of thing it's like I recognize that there's something that I need to change what can I do to affect that change and better my life and other people's well and when you envision how you can change that creates an energy around the positive outcome and that's what you see manifest so they're going I love that that's wonderful yeah are you writing any books you know I started a book and it was all about the liver gift concept and I say concept and because in its infancy it was about what happened with my near-death experience and you know life on the other side of it and choosing to find out what our gifts are and exactly what I was referring to before I waylaid it because then I was the primary caregiver for my mother in her last year's and what a wonderful thing to be devoted to I've been getting nudged again to pick it back up and finish it because in 12 years times since this happened my perspective is different and it is more Universal even than just personal right but it opens your eyes I'll tell you when you have that second chance at life and yeah so thanks for the nudge you and when other people are saying gaiter done you ate it up yeah well I think there's a reason you had to stop and and it didn't get done and I think and this is just my little intuition poking me here because you had so much more that you could say now then you did then and right add in adding that extra component to it is going to make it very interesting bio or whatever it is you're doing whatever you want to call it there's an interest it could be so many things including my vision when I got it was to write about my perspective the second one would to have been I'd write a book about people who I feel are living their gifts and the third one would have been about stories of people writing it to me about people they know who lived their gifts and so it was recommended that maybe I just write the short stories of living our gifts and so that might be in the offing you never know I'm reconnected with some dear friends I met when I was hosting talk radio so I was like you've got more than one going we'll see how about if we just did you know that and along with my speaking career so I guess I'm not bored ever yeah but right get in trouble when I'm bored so yeah I keep busy or we or we'll connect whatever yeah right exactly well we're winding down and I just want to say thank you so much for being here patty Peterson comm remember that go check her out um I just want to thank everybody for tuning in today and I've got just like five seconds here I just want to call us out and say thank you for keeping it real with us here patty Peterson and I thank you very much have a good one folks Merry Christmas Merry Christmas we're also streaming on YouTube so check us out there and don't forget to hit the subscribe button it's free

Channel: REAL PEOPLE With Stephanie Allensworth

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Keywords: Patty Peterson, Peterson Family, Saint Paul, Paul Peterson, Ricky Peterson, Jason Delaire, real people, Allensworth, Primordial Dwarf, Hannah Kritzeck, Talk Shows, Radio, KBEM, Jazz, R&B, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame, Fame

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Length: 29min 23sec (1763 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 30 2019