Brian Keefe has had a love for music almost since the day he was born. His first garage band was with two of his best friends at the age of nine. The band consisted of a snare drum and an old acoustic guitar with three rusty strings. He started playing guitar at age eleven and within a year was again playing out of his parents garage for friends who would request to hear him sing. Later came various high schools, parties and battle of bands. He's come a long way since then, singing as front man and playing both guitar and bass in a number of different bands of classic rock, country and even heavy metal genres, some of the more notable being Explorer, Slamm, Las Vegas country band - Diamondback, Southwest Michigan acoustic trio - Pat, Pat and Brian and Southwest Michigan heavy metal legends - Crash Dummy's. Currently he plays and sings with singing partner Patti Thomson in the acoustic duo - Thomson Keefe. His inspirations have been James Taylor, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, CSNY, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and The Allman Brothers, to name but a few.

Brian has written quite an array of original songs which fit nicely into the Thomson Keefe repertoire. He has an easy going demeanor and his cheerfulness and high spirits are nearly always infectious to those around him. Growing up in Southwest Michigan, he always had Chicago blues infiltrating from the west and Detroit Motown coming in from the east. He feels that the 60's and 70's was the greatest era for rock and roll creativity.

Patti Thomson has been compared to the vocal styles of Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. She finds this interesting considering all her musical influences have been male vocalists, such as John Waite (former lead singer of The Babys) and Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati from the 60's group, The Rascals. She grew up in the 70's and 80's, but started out listening to mostly 60's music from bands such as The Rolling Stones, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Rascals and The Beach Boys. In the 90's she enjoyed listening to alternative pop from artists such as Matchbox 20 as well as a lot of country music from artists such as Hal Ketchum, Trisha Yearwood and Mary Chapin-Carpenter because she has a love for well-written songs with great vocal harmonies. She is very fond of a lot of the new country sounds - not everything, of course. There is a lot of not-so-good overly processed music out there, but there is still some of it that has originality and a great analog quality even though it may still be digitally mastered.

Patti got a late start as a singer. She started singing in 1992 when she persuaded her friend, Patrick Salamun to accompany her on the guitar for a song she had to sing for her final grade in a college class. They became Pat and Pat (for lack of a more appealing name) and carried on as a duo for a year until they met Brian in 1994. They simply added Brian's name to the mix and became Pat, Pat and Brian (and why not?!) and soon became Southwest Michigan acoustic favorites having made videos for Dillon's Music and the local cable television channel which are still being aired today. Patrick eventually made the decision to part from the band to become a husband and father and Patti and Brian went on to form Thomson Keefe. Patti is also a budding songwriter with her song, "Gonna Fly", which received special attention in the local Kalamazoo, Michigan newspaper, The Kalamazoo Gazette.

They have been the warm up band for such notable acts as Ty Herndon, Bruce Hornsby and Kevin Sharp. They now reside, perform and record in Las Vegas, Nevada where they have been since September of 1997. Since then, they have performed at such notable venues as Bally's Hotel and Casino, The Hilton Hotel and Casino, J.C. Wooloughan's Irish Pub inside the Marriott Hotel and Casino, Fado Irish Pub inside Green Valley Ranch Station Casino, Brendan's Irish Pub inside The Orleans Hotel and Casino, McMullin's Irish Pub, The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, The Palms Hotel and Casino and The Mount Charleston Hotel.