An award winning vocalist and producer, DEIAN McBRYDE has entertained in the US, Canada, Europe, Russia and Australia as a solo artist and with his little jazz band, The Pretty Girl Orchestra. He is an independent musician who started performing as a child in small churches in his hometown of Albuquerque. His father also played heaps of big band music at home. From these vastly different influences, Deian offers a unique blend of gospel sensibility and 1940s showmanship to jazz standards, new compositions, recovered songs and vocal improvisation. Once the only Hispanic, straight-ahead, jazz vocalist in New York City (really?), Deian received a Mabel R. Dodge Fellowship at the prestigious Music Omi International Music Residency and has won two Australian Green Room Awards, an OMA Award and other awards and nominations. Deian now resides in New Mexico and travels extensively.

THE PRETTY GIRL ORCHESTRA

From New York USA to Melbourne Australia, Deian has been supported by some of the best musicians in the business. Whether a quartet, quintet, octet or enough musos to scare the Philharmonic, the PGO is always ready to entertain.  Here’s some of the ... err... alumnusesi.

Matt Aronoff (bass)

Ernesto Cervini (drums)

Joan Crowe (vocals)

Mabel DawnDavis (vocals)

Travis DiRuzza (bass)

Matt Earl (drums)

David Epstein (piano/keyboards)

Ed Fairlie (trumpet)

Tedd Firth (piano/keyboards)

Justin Lees (guitar)

Nadje Noordhuis (trumpet)

Toshio Mana (bass)

Sue Matsuki (vocals)

Eamon McNellis (trumpet)

Eivind Opsvik (bass)

Will Poskitt [R.I.P.] (piano/keyboards)

Kynan Robinson (trombone)

Ursel Schlicht (piano)

Mark Shephard (bass)

Adam Simmons (saxophones)

Jerry Smith (drums)

Tracy Stark (piano/keyboards)

Simon Starr (bass)

Fiona Thorn (vocals)