Pat Frederick is a Minnesota musician singer songwriter who is in the MN Music Hall of Fame and the MN Rock & Country Hall of Fame. Pat’s awards include the MN Music Award for Best Violinist. He has received a National Parents Choice Award, an ISES Award and a Telly. He also received the MN Music Award for Best Band with the “Daisy Dillman Band.”

A precocious, unruly lad with ADD and six siblings, Pat would escape to his bedroom to play snare drum along to WDGY… on a radio stolen from the kitchen. At age thirteen he discovered the seminal San Francisco band “Seatrain” featuring master fiddler Richard Greene and there was no looking back.

Fast forward.

As a twenty two year old founding member of the Daisy Dillman Band, Pat proceeded to record for RCA and United Artist Records touring behind successful national releases; The United Artists recordings were with David Z Producer at the legendary Sound 80 in Minneapolis. For RCA Records, Daisy Dillman did “Loving the Night Away,” with legendary producer Rick Hall at Fame Studios, in Muscle Shoals Alabama. He co-wrote and sang the RCA Single “Loving the Night Away,” which charted in the Billboard Hot 100.

Pat has performed across the United States in storied venues like the Lone Star Café (NYC), the Palomino (LA), Danny Seraphine's Beginnings (CHI), and the Legendary Armadillo World Headquarters (Austin TX). He has been back up musician and vocalist to notable artists including Vince Gill, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Kenny Loggins, Michael Johnson, Paulette Carlson & Highway 101, Garrison Keillor,  Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson (ABBA). Pat shared the stage with the legendary Cab Calloway in Cab’s final MN appearance.

Pat has served as music director for theatrical productions at the Ordway Theater, Music Box Theater and Chanhassen Dinner Theaters, as well as numerous corporate events across the country. He has performed, produced and recorded countless TV and Radio commercials with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Peter Oshtrousko, David Hungate (Toto,), and producers Steve Gibson, David Malloy (Nashville TN,) Tom Tucker (Paisley Park) Rick Hall (Muscle Shoals,) David Z and Ricky Peterson.

The father of five, Pat is wed to the unswerving, long-suffering arbiter of all things holy, Beth Kost Frederick.