Patrick Cooper is a singer-songwriter from Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of a North Louisiana father and a South Louisiana Cajun mother. He started playing guitar and singing in public at age 12, performing around his hometown before moving to Baton Rouge, where he began writing his own songs. In 1988 he relocated to Santa Cruz, California, spending more than two decades performing solo and in duos across coffeehouses, bars, restaurants, wineries, and private parties throughout the West Coast.
Feeling the pull of home, Cooper moved back to Louisiana in 2011 and settled in New Orleans. He performs original material in the blues, rock, country, and folk vein, alongside interpretations of John Prine, Bob Dylan, Bobby Charles, Van Morrison, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, Allen Toussaint, and Otis Redding. Humor is central to his stage presence, and he's known for bantering easily with his audiences. OffBeat Magazine has praised his slice-of-life songwriting as smart, witty, and earnest, while The Significato Journal likened his voice to a gritty, bluesy Harry Chapin.
Cooper plays solo regularly at Kerry Irish Pub in the French Quarter and tours the Gulf Coast, with regular stops in Pensacola and Ocean Springs. He has toured the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, Louisiana, and Texas with singer-songwriter John Craigie, and has opened for David Bromberg, Darrell Scott, Paul Thorn, Webb Wilder, Malcolm Holcombe, Beausoleil, Kelly Willis, and Trout Fishing in America, among many others. From 2014 until the series ended, he performed regularly at the Natasha Sanchez Songwriter Circle at Buffa's, and in 2024 and 2025 was selected as one of just 24 songwriters for the Old Bolivar Songwriters Festival in Sanger, Texas, out of hundreds of applicants.
Cooper is also a member of the Roots Americana band Cast Iron Cactus, performs as a duo with percussionist Ron Thamert, and has recorded as part of the projects Silver and Slim and Crossing Canal. His album Gris Gris In Your Face was released in 2013, followed by the EP Somewhat Live in 2020 and the album Sun Room Songs Unplugged in 2025.
