Patty Gurdy

 ( German Hurdy-gurdists ) 

Patty released her first EP, Shapes & Patterns, on 2 March 2018. This included 3 original tracks and 3 cover songs. She released a single entitled Run on 30 August 2019. A second single, Oil, premiered on 13 September 2019. On 27 September 2019 she released her first full-length album, Pest & Power, which was composed mostly of original work. This album featured many guest appearances from well-known names, including Faun. During this time, she also wrote music for the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row.

On 22 November 2019 Patty released the single Grieve No More (Extended Version), a song written for that series. Another EP was released on 20 November 2020, entitled Frost & Faeries and including a Christmas-themed collaboration between Patty Gurdy and Fiddler's Green, The Yule Fiddler (Christmas Time is Coming 'Round Today). Her cover of Bad Habits (originally by Ed Sheeran) was released on 30 October 2021. In addition to playing the hurdy-gurdy, she also recorded the nyckelharpa for this single. Another single, Universe Night & Day, premiered on 24 May 2022. This song was released alongside the instrumental version, Universe Night & Day (Instrumental).

She formed her live band Patty Gurdy's Circle with members of Subway to Sally. The band's musicians were Bodenski, Simon Michael, and Ingo Hampf, along with Patty, who added vocals and the hurdy-gurdy. Together they released one single, entitled Kalte Winde, on 23 April 2020, which was a cover of a song by the German band . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Patty Gurdy's Circle was forced to disband.

Her collaborations include ASP, Alestorm, Faun, and Ayreon. She has also worked with the metal band Scardust. In July 2019, she went on tour with Scardust in the United Kingdom. On 22 March 2022 she played her first concert outside of Europe with Scardust in Israel, which was Live streaming on Play2Fund. Patty was originally supposed to play this concert in March 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was not allowed to travel into Israel. Instead, she sent videos of herself to be shown at the Scardust concert without her. She guests in Scardust's music video for their song Concrete Cages, on which she played the hurdy-gurdy and sang. Patty also appears in dArtagnan's single Farewell (released in 2021), in addition to performing live with the band. In 2022, she collaborated with metal band Silverlane on their song Für Immer und Ewig. On 17 June 2022 Patty announced that she arranged part of the soundtrack for the video game Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure (part of the Earthlock series of video games). On 8 July 2022 she released her part of the soundtrack as the single Piratehog Chant.

On 23 November 2022, Gurdy posted a new song called Melodies of Hope, which she also submitted as an application for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. She was ranked at the last place during the votings (8 out of 8) and Germany was this year represented at Eurovision by Lord of the Lost.

On 24 November 2024 Patty released her "Tavern Album" which features songs sung in English, German and Icelandic and features many other artists including Pernilla Kannapinn, Adaya from Faun and Marko Hietala among others. "Tavern" is her second full album after "Pest & Power" /ref>

• Pirate Scum (Storm Seeker, 2016), Metal.de said "Patty ... does a fantastic job in songs like "The Longing". Timo's and Patty's vocals complement each other in this way. The successful folk melodies, which then pound the listener and are then contrasted again by Patty's expressive voice, provide the necessary portion of goosebumps." (Google translation from German)
• Shapes & Patterns EP (2018) included a cover of Over the Hills and Far Away. The Rockoutstandout reviewer wrote "Patty Gurdy’s cover with a hurdy-gurdy and vocals gives us a completely different take on the song altogether and it works very well. The echo effect on the vocals give this track that well know powerful atmosphere that the original song is able to do. I love this quirky cover and I always feel a sense of warmth when hearing the song."
• Review of Pest & Power album (2019) by Permafrost.today. "The Hurdy Gurdy is not only embedded in her name, but her music is directly translated from her mind into the green wooden body. Patty Gurdy has established not only the instrument, but herself as a versatile artist, singer and songwriter."
• Guest appearance on Alestorm's album Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020). The Moshville Times reviewer said "More guest vocals feature on the epic “Zombies Ate My Pirate Ship” courtesy of Patty Gurdy (Patty Gurdy’s Circle) who also plays hurdy-gurdy throughout the album. I’ll tell you this, she’s got an amazing voice! This is a song that you’d expect to sound sillier than it does, but in this case it’s the vocals that are a bit daft while the music itself is as straight-laced as could be."

2016	Gurdy's Green	Shapes & Patterns
2017	The Longing	Shapes & Patterns	Storm Seeker cover
2017	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)	Shapes & Patterns	Eurythmics cover
2017	Game of Thrones	Shapes & Patterns	title song of the Game of Thrones series
2017	The Longing (Karaoke/Instrumental)	Shapes & Patterns	lyric video for instrumental version of Storm Seeker cover
2018	Over the Hills and Far Away	Shapes & Patterns	Gary Moore cover
2019	Run	Pest & Power
2019	Oil	Pest & Power
2019	Luring	Pest & Power	with Faun
2019	Grieve No More	Frost & Faeries	Carnival Row soundtrack
2020	One by One	Pest & Power	with Hellscore
2020	Leaves and Lemons	Pest & Power
2020	The Yule Fiddler (Christmas Time Is Coming 'Round Today)	Frost & Faeries	with Fiddler's Green
2020	Molly Malone	Frost & Faeries	Irish traditional
2021	Horizon Turns Red	Frost & Faeries
2021	Flower Duet Theme	Frost & Faeries	Lakmé opera cover
2021	Bad HabitsArchived at Ghostarchive and the target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Wayback Machine:	Folk & Pop	Ed Sheeran cover
2021	The Parting Glass	TBA	Scottish traditional
2021	Lora Lie Lo	Frost & Faeries	Carnival Row soundtrack
2022	The Night Our Ship Will Drown	Pest & Power	partial music video
2022	No One Knows Who I Am	TBA	Jekyll & Hyde musical cover
2022	Universe Night & Day	Folk & Pop
2022	Piratehog Chant	TBA	soundtrack
2022	Running Up That Hill	Folk & Pop	Kate Bush cover
2022	Melodies of Hope	Folk & Pop
2024	Brighter Days Come	Tavern Album
2024	Find me some pretty girls	Tavern Album	Featuring Adaya & Pernilla Kannapinn
2024	I am with you	Tavern Album	Featuring Marko Hietala