[11] In 1913 she appeared at the annual Atlanta Colored Music Festival, as featured soloist alongside Roland Hayes.

[12] In 1914 she sang in a concert of Black composers in Chicago, sharing the bill with pianist Robert Nathaniel Dett and others.

[17] She gave a concert at Poro College in St. Louis in 1918,[18] and after World War I toured with a military band.

[20] Her 1922 Los Angeles appearance prompted a reviewer to note that she was "a genuine prima donna" with "a dulcet voice of rare soprano altitude".

[22] In 1920, Brown began "Patti's Brazilian Toilette Luxuries", a mail-order business selling cosmetics and perfume.