Denise McCann

Denise McCann (Bachman)
Birth name	Denise Eliane Helene McCann
Also known as	Denise Bachman
Born	December 16, 1948
Origin	United States
Genres	Rock, Disco, Celtic
Occupation(s)	Singer/Songwriter
Instruments	guitar, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, percussion, piano, bass
Years active	1977-present
Labels	Polydor Canada, Ltd., Butterfly/EMI Records USA, RCA Canada,

Denise McCann (born December 16, 1948, in Clinton, Iowa) is an American-Canadian singer/songwriter.

Growing up in a musical family, (her grandfather Albert Hews McCann, Sr. was a professional cornet player and singer in Shreveport, Louisiana), part of the McCann Family Orchestra that accompanied traveling vaudeville acts at the Shreveport theatre.

McCann's family moved to Castro Valley, California during her teen years. After graduating from high school in 1967, she moved to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury region.

McCann became part of the hippie movement when she worked at the Magic Mountain Festival on Mount Tamalpais and then at the Monterey Pop Festival, where she was befriended by a nervous Jimi Hendrix just before his seminal performance. She appears in the D.A. Pennebaker documentary "Monterey Pop!"

She went on to become a folk singer and songwriter, appearing many times at famed San Francisco folk clubs, such as The Holy City Zoo, The Drinking Gourd, and The Coffee Gallery, where she would play her distinctive Gibson J-50 guitar and sing her self-penned songs.

She joined with Bob Smith and Roy Michaels of "Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys" to form a new group called "Rich and Famous (and Denise)". The group only played a few gigs before going their separate ways.

McCann traveled to British Columbia to Vancouver's Kitsilano neighborhood, where she became a fixture performing at local clubs such as "Rohan's Rockpile" (see music of Vancouver) and The Commodore Ballroom.

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