BIO

Over the past 20 years Brady has been quietly building a solid reputation as a songwriter's songwriter in central Virginia. His moving, tightly written, often funny songs have been compared to those of Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, & Joni Mitchell.

While he was getting PhD in English Literature at the University of Virginia, he caught the attention of several local singer-songwriters. Browning Porter & Jeff Romano of Nickeltown ended up performing several pieces of his and recording "Tide by Tide" & "After You" on their Presto Change-O album; Paul Curreri included his version of “Stephen Crane” on his collection California. Brady has also arranged and produced songs for local favorites The Naked Puritans, Mary Gordon Hall, and Michael McConkey.

Acoustic Guitar magazine's Elizabeth Papapetrou called Brady's 1998 debut After You "one of the ten best contemporary folk CD's of the 1990s." C-ville Weekly music critic Keith Morris called his 2003 release Manalapan "a fully realized, mature album . . . the most subtly poetic, skillfully crafted and all-inclusively human stuff I've heard in years."

Brady's song "Gargoyle" won the gold medal in the folk category of the 2002 Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Contest & appeared on Charlottesville radio station WNRN's Station Break. In June 2002, "Car Repair" aired on NPR's CarTalk. In 2004, Brady was an Outmusic Award finalist. Three of his performances appear on King of My Living Room, a live singer-songwriter showcase released in 2001.

Brady is a 2002 Mountain Stage New Song Festival finalist & has performed at such venues as Starr Hill, Acoustic Charlottesville, Acoustic Muse, the Shenandoah Coffeehouse Series, & the Florida Folk Festival, as well as pubs & coffeehouses throughout the eastern U.S.

From 2015-19, Brady ran the popular original Charlottesville songwriter showcase Uncovered. He has taught poetry writing to elementary school students, English as a Second Language, & American literature & Creative Writing at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. Besides continuing to write, perform, & record, he is currently working as an interpreter for Spanish-speaking refugees through the International Rescue Committee.