Fawn at the Bitter End

Fawn Segerson trained as a classical pianist back home in Roxbury, Connecticut. She moved to New York City, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in media scoring and launched a career as a singer songwriter simply named Fawn. Fawn occasionally works as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator, including on a recent episode of television's Ray Donovan, but more often performs a regular residency at both the Bitter End and the Algonquin Hotel. Behind the scene, Fawn is also writing music for television and film. She released her fourth and most recent album, Vis-à-vis, in 2017.

Fawn looks like a pin-up girl from the WWII era when she performs at the Bitter End on the fourth Tuesday of each month. On her most recent engagement, she played piano (on other occasions she also played guitar and ukulele) and was accompanied by bassist Neville L'Green and drummer Mark Greenberg. Her persona on stage was serene and subtle, not at all showy, and when she sang her original songs, her light-as-air vocals floated soothingly through the room. The throwback acoustic performance perhaps leaned closer to cabaret than to rock, as her vintage jazz nuances married bouncy pop melodies. New York City is home to countless singer-songwriters, but Fawn is more than this; she is a stylist with a captivatingly new old-fashioned sound.