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Erin McKeown (pronounced Vorlage:IPAc-en Vorlage:Respell) is an American multi-instrumentalist and folk-rock singer-songwriter. McKeown's music encompasses pop, swing, rock, folk, and electronic music, as well as several other genres.

Music career

She grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and now lives in Massachusetts. McKeown began her career in the folk scene. She released her first album, Monday Morning Cold in 1999 on her own label (TVP Records), travelling throughout New England while 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. Early in her career, she 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 next 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. It consists mostly of covers of jazz standards from the 1920s through 1950s.

McKeown's record, Hundreds of Lions, was released under Righteous Babe Records on October 13, 2009. McKeown is currently member of an unsigned band known as "emma", which she created with her friend Allison Miller. McKeown has plans to write a book of poetry. McKeown released "Manifestra" on January 15, 2013. Physical copies also came with a bonus album, "Civics", where she performed the entirety of "Manifestra" solo acoustic in an historic library.

McKeown performs 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, Allison Miller, and others. McKeown also took part in Queerstock, a music festival dedicated to promoting LGBT musicians. McKeown is noted for her energetic stage presence and her habit of wearing tailored suits, often with ties and Fluevog shoes to performances.

She occasionally performs big band music with the Beantown Swing Orchestra.

McKeown was selected to be a 2011–2012 fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. There, she will "work to connect the worlds of policy, art, and technology while considering questions about how to make a creative life a viable vocation."

In October 2016, a new musical McKeown wrote with the playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes titled Miss You Like Hell opened at the La Jolla Playhouse directed by Lear deBessonet and starring Daphne Rubin-Vega. The show opened Off-Broadway, April 20, 2018 at the Public Theater. A cast recording of the project was released October 5, 2018 on Ghostlight Records.

Discography

• Monday Morning Cold (TVP) (1999)
• Distillation (Signature Sounds) (October 10, 2000)
• Grand (Nettwerk) (June 10, 2003)
• We Will Become Like Birds (Nettwerk) (June 28, 2005)
• Sing You Sinners (Nettwerk) (January 9, 2007)
• Lafayette (Live) (Signature Sounds) (September 25, 2007)
• Small Deviant Things, vol. 1 (TVP) (August 1, 2008)
• Hundreds of Lions (Righteous Babe) (October 13, 2009)
• 3 Songs feat. Marc Dalio and Matt Douglas (TVP) (December 7, 2010)
• F*ck That! Erin McKeown's Anti-Holiday Album (TVP) (November 1, 2011)
• MANIFESTRA (TVP) (January 15, 2013)
• Small Deviant Things, vol. 2 + 3 (TVP) (November 6, 2013)
• According to Us (TVP) (June 24, 2016)
• Mirrors Break Back (TVP) (March 31, 2017)
• Miss You Like Hell (Original Cast Recording) (Ghostlight Records) (October 5, 2018)
• KISS OFF KISS (TVP) (September 24, 2021)

External links

• Official home page
• http://articles.philly.com/2015-02-03/entertainment/58716262_1_erin-mckeown-tin-angel-balancing-act
• http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/from_breathing_to_birdsong_erin_mckeown/
• Washington Post review of We Will Become Like Birds
• Interview with Erin McKeown - small WORLD Podcast 2006
• Erin McKeown's April 2006 Daytrotter Recording Session
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080427012213/http://www.daytrotter.com/article/37/free-songs-erin-mckeown
• Interview with Erin McKeown - Lesbilicious Magazine 2008
• Audio interview with Erin McKeown and Jill Sobule on Well-Rounded Radio, 2009
• Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour Show #552 - WMV Video (Seite dauerhaft nicht mehr abrufbar, festgestellt im Januar 2018.)
• Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour Show #552 - MP3 Audio (Seite dauerhaft nicht mehr abrufbar, festgestellt im Januar 2018.)
• Erin McKeown talks to the PBS NewsHour