DAWN EGAN – all lessons currently online

Dawn Egan has taught Celtic harp since 1996, including three years for the Mitchell Conservatorium of Music in Bathurst. Dawn's repertoire includes the beautiful tunes of Turlough O'Carolan.

Dawn gives harp lessons to children as young as six and adults of any age.

Fees: Lessons at the School: 1/2 hour $45 / 1-hour $80, payable by bank transfer.
Online Lessons: 1/2 hour $45, payable by bank transfer (contact Dawn)

Biography: 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. After settling in the Blue Mountains in 1983, Dawn took up the Celtic harp and began working professionally with guitarist, Nigel Foote, playing over 1000 gigs in the Mountains and Sydney region in the next ten years.

Dawn has recorded six albums, including four CDs of Celtic harp tunes for the ABC Music label for which she received two ARIA nominations.

Dawn has a current Working With Children Check certificate

"Dawn Egan has one of those crystal-clear, Joan Baez voices, and her renditions of The Trees They Grow High, Reynardine and Silkie 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 carry one back through time to the old stone inns and windswept fields of Ireland." ABC Music. 

Discography: ABC Music CDs: Sleep Baby Sleep, Hush-a-Bye, Yulefest, Late Night (Produced by Andrew Knight).
Independent Albums: Shooting-Stars & Wishing-Wells (Produced by Stuart Cowell) and Spirit of the Strings, an instrumental album of harp and guitar (with Nigel Foote)