Tampa Bay songwriter and music educator Patty Kenoly plays farewell show this weekend

Last Tuesday in downtown Tampa, Patty Kenoly channeled the spirit of Billie Holiday in a rousing performance as part of the final Central Ave. Live of the summer.

The songwriter, aka Noan Partly, was surrounded by by an all-star band and also a troupe of kids from East Tampa's Jackson Heights neighborhood. The youngsters were pupils of Kenoly, who works with Instruments 4 Life as an educator.

After almost a decade in town,  Kenoly's time in the Tampa Bay area will come to an end as she continues her own studies in music therapy in North Carolina. But not before a farewell show.

“I’ll miss it a lot. This is the first place I ever started playing music, so it really feels like all my roots as a professional musician began here,” Kenoly told the Lakeland Ledger . “It’s my ‘music home,’ all always think of (Lakeland) that way.”

Tickets to see Patty Kenoly and the Noan Partly Quartet play Pink Piano in Lakeland on Saturday, July 20 are $8 at the door. [event-1] Readers are invited to submit their own events to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s things to do calendar.

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