Singer and songwriter Erin McKeown was raised in Fredricksburg, VA. She began her musical career by performing in local clubs and coffeehouses at night. By day she attended Brown University where she studied ethnomusicology. McKeown's music is in many ways uniquely her own. It's been called folksy pop and quirky folk, with occasional lyrics that are akin to beat poems. However her tunes are labeled, they are Erin McKeown.