DEB SEYMOUR: BIO
Born and raised in San Francisco, CA, Deb Seymour started playing piano at age three and guitar at age ten. She
made her public musical debut while at college in Boulder, Colorado,
playing solo folk music for an enthusiastic crowd at Brillig Works
Tea Room. OK- so they were all her friends...but none-the-less, a musical legacy was begun!
Shortly afterwards, Deb met Ann Krohn, a fellow Boulder musician, and the two began performing as Seventh String, doing Irish music. Later on, with the addition of David Rick, they became Seventh String Celtic Trio with Deb on mandolin, octave mandolin, guitar and Bodhran, Ann on mandolin, flute and guitar, and David on cello. The group played for over five and a half years in the Denver-Boulder area to great adventures, not to mention occasional ms-adventures...
When Seventh String went on sabbatical in the summer of 1989 Deb did a side stint as guitarist for Out of the Blue, an all-woman bluegrass group from Golden, CO, with Stephanie Sibson on banjo, Judy Calhoun on lead vocals and mandolin and Leona Kissee on bass. Known as the "chicks who pick." Out of the Blue quickly made friends in the Front Range bluegrass scene. Unfortunately, the untimely death of banjo player Sibson in a car accident dissolved the group and Deb went on to form yet another group, this time called Small Talk, guitarist Paul Niemiec of the Denver blues ensemble the Trash Hawks and bassist Martha Kaye Kale of the Albuquerque, NM band Locomotion. This group performed blues, jazz, and Deb's originals.
Her first CD, Martian Tangos, was released in 1992, which launched a 2 year, nine state perpetual tour, which brought Deb the the Northwest, where she eventually decided to settle. She promptly wound up playing with the short-lived Twins Before Birth, with Liz Savage(now of Rodeo Lagoon) and Nick Dallett. A second solo album, Cupid's Wheel, followed in 1999, which features former T.B.B. band mates as backup artists.
Today Deb currently plays in the Seattle both solo and with her current band, the Debonairs, and writes a monthly music column for Victory Music out of Tacoma and works as an independent web designer. |
Seventh String Celtic Trio
Out Of The Blue
Deb Seymour & Small Talk
Twins Before Birth
Deb Seymour, 1998
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