Dawn Egan ~ biography
Though born in Sydney, Dawn Egan grew up in the Central West town of Bathurst, NSW, where she began playing the guitar and singing folk songs in local halls and coffee shops at the age of fifteen.
While still at high school, Dawn met songwriter Nigel Foote who was visiting the Morgan family at Abercrombie House, across the road from where she was staying... they would marry ten years later.
After settling in the Blue Mountains in 1983, Dawn took up the Celtic harp, and two years later began working professionally as a folk duo with Nigel playing guitar. The couple were soon in demand for their peaceful, traditional music, playing over 1000 gigs in the mountains during the next ten years.
Dawn released her debut album, 'Shooting-Stars & Wishing-Wells' in 1987, and an instrumental album, 'Spirit Of The Strings', with Nigel the same year.
In 1998, Egan began recording for the ABC Music Label, releasing four CDs of traditional Celtic Harp tunes, produced by Andrew Knight. Dawn received two ARIA Award nominations for the work.
Now the mother of three boys, Dawn continues to play the harp in the mountains, and is currently working on material for her next album to be released on the Folksinger Label.
Quotes
"Dawn Egan has one of those crystal-clear, Joan Baez voices, and her renditions of Silkie, The Trees They Grow High and Reynardine are delivered with much beauty".
Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald
"A woman whose music is firmly grounded in the Celtic tradition, and whose haunting, enchanting melodies can carry one back through time, to the old stone inns and windswept fields of Ireland." ABC Music, July 1998
"I love many forms of music, but I'm always drawn back to the traditional styles," Dawn Egan
Discography
Shooting-Stars & Wishing-Wells
Spirit Of The Strings
Sleep Baby Sleep
Hush-a-Bye
Yulefest
Late Night