About Thom O'Brien

Thom has always been both a musician and an architect. He was eleven when he received his first guitar and at fourteen he started working in an architectural firm. From that point on, he has balanced his life between the two.

As a teen, Thom played in several New York-based bands, but it was when he moved to Toronto for architecture school that he honed his skills as a Singer-Songwriter. While performing solo shows, he also formed several bands.

Due to the success of his music career, Thom took a year off from architecture school to play as a full-time musician. He hitchhiked across Canada, playing venues as far North as Whitehorse in The Yukon Territories. Traveling, he would "busk" on the street and played gigs from Alaska to San Diego. It was during his time hitching that he was invited to perform his original material at a festival in front of several thousand people.

Thom had planned on ending up in LA at the end of his musical year where he would decide what steps to take next, and there he won the famous LA "Palomino Club-Thursday Night Talent Show."  In that moment of success, having fully immersed himself in the music business for a year, he decided to go back to architecture school while committing to play music always “seriously on the side” and keeping it in a place of pure passion.

What followed was decades of songwriting and recording, and the formation of several New York-based bands. Thom has continued to write and record original songs and has played two solo shows at the New York City Songwriters Circle at the Bitter End.

The isolation of Covid gave him time to focus on his writing and to start remotely recording with Producer/Musician Pete Donnelly at Katonah Sound. Two years of recording led to the most rewarding moment in his musical journey, the pressing of his original songs on vinyl rounding up many of the musicians from his years on the road to collaborate.

His Album, Bridges And Crossroads, was released in the summer of '24.