Deirdre Egan

E-Mail: drdeardre@yahoo.com

Mail: PO Box 1035, Bozeman, MT 59771

Deirdre Egan's love for music came directly from her father, an Irish immigrant who came to America to embark on a musical career. With his influence, and the influence of her Irish-American neighborhood in Yonkers, New York, Deirdre grew up listening to a broad spectrum of music, from the Beatles to the Clancy Brothers to Stevie Wonder. The piano became her passion, until she turned sixteen, when she discovered the guitar and began writing songs.
In college at the State University of New York at New Paltz, she discovered music therapy as an outlet for her creativity and desire to help people. She received her B.S. in Music Therapy in 1998, and worked as a therapist in Manhattan for three years before following the call to the West.
Deirdre has now spent a year and a half in Bozeman, where she has pursued her lifetime dream of becoming a singer/songwriter. Influenced by Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Irish folk music, and Fats Waller, Deirdre plays guitar, piano, and Irish harp, providing unique arrangements for folk, jazz, Celtic, and rock & roll covers, as well as for her original music.
Aside from her regular gigs at Bozeman's Leaf & Bean coffeehouse and the Haufbrau, Deirdre has also performed at the Gallatin Gateway Inn, the Filling Station, the Robin Lounge, Aunt Dofe's Hall of Recent Memory (Willow Creek, MT), Chet's Bar (Big Sky, MT), Dusty Boots Saloon (Livingston, MT), the Laughing Horse Lodge (Swan Lake, MT), and Montana State University; out-of-state performances include Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID), the University of Idaho (Moscow, ID), Northwest College (Powell, WY), and the An Beal Bocht Café (New York, NY). Deirdre complements her busy solo schedule with her work in a blues/jazz duo called The Mayfair Girls. The enclosed CD is Deirdre's most recent recording, entitled "September's Lemonade". Her live performances are extremely energetic, with interesting and eclectic material.