The Adobe Flash Player is required to watch videos on this page

Patrick W McHenry

Play All

songwriter. guitarist. band leader.

Quick Links
About the Artist
Music
Achievements
Press Coverage
Stage Specs
Return to Patrick W McHenry's profile

At-a-Glance
One-Sheet

Hometown	Seattle, WA
Genres	Singer/Songwriter (Male), Contemporary/Soft Rock
Band Members
Achievements	» more
Upcoming Shows	None

Contact Information:

Expand All Expand All

Expand

About the Artist

Award winning singer-songwriter who resides in Washington state. A true northwesterner, his influences draw from an amalgam of American music and cultures. A hook-writing factory, Patrick’s songwriting is described as powerful and lasting. In a sea of...

Expand

Music

Expand

Achievements

Reached 39th in Best of Pop chart in 2015. In the top 100 for 26 weeks.

Reached 69th in Best of Rock chart in 2015. In the top 100 for 4 weeks.

Reached 46th in Best of Rock chart in 2014. In the top 100 for 21 weeks.

Expand

Press Coverage

Adieu, Mon Cheri by
Patrick McHenry has been a fixture in the local music scene for most of the past decade. As a popular solo singer-songwriter, in indie rock bands such as Favorite Color Blue and Smile Line Spark, in a duo with Caroline Francis, and most recently, co-fronting with Francis in indie-jazz pop quartet Mon Cheri. In three years, Mon Cheri became one of Spokane’s most popular live bands and released three albums, one of which was tracked with Grammy-winning producer Kory Kruckenberg. But tonight it all comes to an end as McHenry, aka Wayne Patrick, makes his exit from the music scene after Mon Cheri’s farewell show at Spokane’s newest dedicated live music venue, the Red Room Lounge, 521 W. Sprague Ave. McHenry is leaving the local music scene, and Spokane as a whole, as he and his wife begin their journey as traveling nurses in Connecticut, where they just landed jobs. While it’s entirely possible McHenry’s work could bring him back to the area, even within months, he’s asked that the band not hold its breath for him. “I’ve been telling the band since I started my career as a nurse that I wanted to do some traveling for a year or two and I didn’t want them to get their hopes up that we’d start touring a lot or trying to get signed,” McHenry said. “I’ve always been upfront that I didn’t want music to be my job and have to rely on creating music and always having to be touring to survive. We’re saying this is the last gig because we don’t have plans to come back to Spokane except to visit friends.” Mon Cheri’s last gig being a benefit for the Second Harvest Food Bank is incidental, but all the more special, McHenry said. “We’ve booked a gig around the holidays the last three years, it’s sort of like tradition,” McHenry said. “The first year we played a bunch of sappy lovey-dovey songs. The second year we did a food drive. I wasn’t expecting much but people really brought out a ton of food. That was one of the best moments for me as musician. Most of the time we played shows the focus was on the money, this time the whole point of the show was to benefit the food bank and that felt awesome. As for the other three-fourths of Mon Cheri – Francis, drummer Brandon Vasquez, and upright bassist Kurt Olson – time will tell. According to McHenry, Francis has been singing with Vasquez’s wife, Karyn, while Vasquez continues to moonlight in Dead Serious Lovers and Olson forges ahead with his performance poetry. “I don’t want them to wait around in Spokane for me and not play music,” McHenry said. “I told them to consider it our last show ever and go do something else. I told them to replace me.”

Expand

Stage Specs

Technical Requirements

One Shure-58 mic with mic stand and cable.

One DI-box with quarter inch cable and XLR cable.

One PA system with enough power to fill a venue with reasonable volume that is in good working condition and has been tested recently for tonal and operational integrity.

iAnEAqqqq

Video Playback Error

Patrick W McHenry

About the Artist

Music

Photos

Photos

Achievements

Press Coverage

Stage Specs

Technical Requirements

Technical Requirements