Erin McKeown

Erin McKeown (born October 15, 1977) is a multi-instrumentalist and folk-rock singer/songwriter.

McKeown began her career in the folk scene. She released her first album, "Monday Morning Cold", on her own label (TVP Records), travelling throughout New England while still a student at Brown University in order to promote the record. Although she had begun studying ornithology, she graduated from Brown with a degree in ethnomusicology.

McKeown's music is difficult to categorize in terms of genre; it has touched on pop, swing, rock, folk, and electronic music, as well as many other genres. She continues to perform regularly, spending much of her time touring throughout the world with artists such as Ani DiFranco, Josh Ritter, the Indigo Girls, Martin Sexton, Andrew Bird, Thea Gilmore, Melissa Ferrick, and others. McKeown took part in Queerstock, a music festival dedicated to promoting LGBT musicians. [ [http://www.doriaroberts.com/queerstock/who.html Queerstock: Who's played] ]

Early in her career, she also collaborated with Beth Amsel, Jess Klein, and Rose Polenzani; the four of them performed as Voices on the Verge.

McKeown's 2005 album, "We Will Become Like Birds" (produced by Tucker Martine), served as a departure from her earlier work, with a more rock-oriented sound. At a September 1, 2008, concert at The Gravity Lounge in Charlottesville, Virginia, McKeown told the audience that she wrote this album "in an attempt to write myself out of the worst heartache I'd experienced up to that point."

Her latest studio release, "Sing You Sinners", was released in Europe on the 23 October 2006 and in the United States on January 9, 2007 by Nettwerk Records LLC. It consists mostly of covers of jazz standards from the 1920s through 1950s.

Discography

* "Monday Morning Cold" (TVP Records) (1999)
* "Distillation" (Signature Sounds) (2000)
* "Grand" (Nettwerk Records) (2003)
* "We Will Become Like Birds" (Nettwerk Records) (2005)
* "Sing You Sinners" (Nettwerk Records) (2006)
* "Lafayette" (Live) (Signature Sounds) (2007)
* "Small Deviant Things, vol.1" (TVP Records) (2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.erinmckeown.com/ Official home page]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071400547.html Washington Post review of We Will Become Like Birds]
*" [http://smallworldpodcast.com/?p=483 Interview with Erin McKeown] " - [http://smallworldpodcast.com small WORLD Podcast] 2006
* [http://www.daytrotter.com/article/37/free-songs-erin-mckeown/ Erin McKeown's April 2006 Daytrotter Recording Session]
* http://www.daytrotter.com/article/37/free-songs-erin-mckeown