Lake Street Dive Kearney is a founding member of Lake Street Dive, which was founded in 2004 and started touring in 2007. She has appeared with Lake Street Dive on many national shows:
The Colbert Report,
The Late Show with David Letterman,
Conan,
The Ellen DeGeneres Show,
National Public Radio,
Prairie Home Companion with
Garrison Keillor and on
Live From Here hosted by
Chris Thile. The band has uploaded numerous videos, including their annual, humorous
Halloween covers, and T Bone Burnett asked them to perform on the
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of "Inside Llewyn Davis" show and album. The band has traveled and performed in almost every state in America and over a dozen foreign countries. Originally with
Signature Sounds Recordings, in 2016 the band signed with
Nonesuch Records and subsequently released their "Fun Machine: The Sequel EP" on
Fantasy Records in September 2022.
Solo and backing bands Kearney has appeared as a solo performer and also worked with a varying array of other musicians, producers and performers to create her own recordings, videos, and, tours, at times solely performing her own music under her own name. Other performances and tours were designed as collaborations with varying musicians each taking the lead role in arranging and performing their own songs with the other members backing and exchanging instruments. These appearances were sometimes referred to under the name of each, or all, performers.
Bridget Kearney and Benjamin Lazar Davis Bridget Kearney and
Benjamin Lazar Davis began making music together performing as "BbGun" from the time they were students together at the
New England Conservatory of Music. In 2015 the two alumni teamed up to create original works which are in part a fusion of music from the west African country of Ghana and Kearney and Davis' music. Various artists, including Stevo Atambire and Aaron Bebe Sukura as well as musical instruments and cultural elements from Ghana were used by the artists from Ghana, Kearney and Davis in the making of these recordings. The results of these creative efforts are contained in two recorded music releases: "Bawa" in 2015 and "Still Flying" in 2020.
BB Wisely Kearney launched the band BB Wisely with
Benjamin Lazar Davis and Will Graefe in August 2022. The trio had been writing songs, recording and touring as a trio and alternating duo pairs for a few years prior to deciding on BB Wisely as the name of the band. The band name is a fusion of Bridget, Ben, and "Chime Wisely", a band created by Davis and guitarist Will Graefe.
Joy Kills Sorrow Kearney was also a major songwriter and stand up bass player for
Joy Kills Sorrow from 2005 to 2012. Joy Kills Sorrow was a Boston-based, indie pop, American roots, string band formed in 2005. This band released three albums before Kearney left the band to join Lake Street Dive full-time.
Cuddle Magic Cuddle Magic is a chamber pop collective that varies in membership. Kearney has written songs for and played with Cuddle Magic.
The Fundies The Fundies was another part-time band collaboration featuring
Margaret Glaspy,
Rachael Price,
Brittany Haas and Kearney. Their first performance was in 2010, and they self-released an EP called The Fundies in 2012. It has been mentioned that, in retrospect, the Fundies was an all-female Super Group. Each member has gone on to launch their own, successful musical career. Each of the Fundies has played with at least one other Fundie since they parted, while some continue to do so on a regular basis. Glaspy and Haas played a Fundies reunion gig in 2015. There have been rumors of a reunion show with all of the original members.
Other groups and musicians Kearney has played live, written for, and recorded with, a host of acts as a collaborator and backing musician, including
Rodney Crowell,
Ed Sheeran,
Aoife O’Donovan,
Margaret Glaspy,
Bella White,
Charlotte Cornfield and Brazilian singer
Tiago Iorc. == Discography ==