Pat Drummond from Sydney is an Australian singer/songwriter based in Leura, New South Wales who emerged from the Sydney Folk scene with his brothers in the 1960s; performed as a solo artist in the 1970s and then in numerous projects in different music genres including as a member of bush band, The Bushwackers He is possibly best known prior to 1989 for his 10-year solo residency at The Rest Hotel in North Sydney and in later years, at a national level, as The 'Tales From The Local Rag' Reporter, a travelling troubadour chronicling the true life stories of average, albeit often courageous, Australians in verse and song. He also owns and operates the 2003 Independent Country Music Record Company of The Year, Shoestring Records
For many in Sydney, his 10-year Friday night residency at Sydney's Rest Hotel was a 'rite of passage' and the pub saw well over three hundred thousand fans pass through its doors during that time. The night before its demolition in the late '80s the whole soundscape was captured by CBS/True Blue on the Double CD, 'Live at The Rest Hotel' in a gig that saw over 2000 people turn up to a pub that only held 350; and traffic brought to a standstill in the surrounding North Sydney streets.