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Deirdre Flint is a Philadelphia-based
singer-songwriter. She writes songs about the trials of
being an introvert, the Failed Metric Coup of 1975,
horrendous bridesmaids dresses and all the warped and
wonderful experiences of adolescence.
After sixteen years of Catholic Schooling,
Deirdre finally went secular and received her Masters Degree
in Elementary Education from The University of Pennsylvania.
She’s taught elementary school in California, Washington DC,
Philadelphia and New Jersey.
She also spent a
year and a half in Kongju Korea, teaching college English at
the Kongju Junior College. While there, she began doing open
mics in Taejon Korea. Upon moving back to the states,
Deirdre plunked down the money she had saved in Korea to
make her first CD – The Shuffleboard Queens. This CD was
produced at Michael Comstock’s Indre Studios in
Philadelphia. Her debut CD was one of the most played CDs
that year on the Folk DJ list, due in large part to the
brilliance of her producer, Greg Horne.
Deirdre
met Greg at The National Guitar Workshop, which she
recommends highly.
Deirdre won the
Kerrville New Folk Award and the Falcon Ridge Showcase.
While at Kerrville, she met Sally Fingerett, founding member
of The Four Bitchin’ Babes. A few years later, a slot opened
up and Deirdre happily
joined the latest lineup of the
band which now includes Sally Fingerett, Debi Smith and
Nancy Moran.
In Septemer 2009, The Babes released Diva
Nation. Metric Is Coming is on this album, to the
delight of a few math teachers that keep bugging Deirdre for
it.
Deirdre’s music has been heard on World
Café, Gene Shay’s Folk Show, TLC’s A Dating Story, TLC’s
Documentary “Always a Bridesmaid,” BBC’s The Reclaimers,
Nip/Tuck, The Dr. Demento Show, as well as a
smattering of radio stations that you find down on the left
hand side of the dial.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Strudel Is this Comic Singer’s
Muse
By Lisa Suhay
Clad in a sweater set and black slacks, the five
foot nothing Deirdre Flint looks more like a kindergarten teacher
than a rabble-rousing musical comedienne.
She’s an angry chick singer/songwriter, sort of –
a raw combination of innocence,hope and feminine angts, using her
guitar like a claymore to cut to the funny bone.
I know. I don’t look like I sound, right? “ Says Ms. Flint, reading
the situation as she sits in a Barnes and Noble café.
It is hard to believe this is the same woman whose
powerful performances leave audiences, who range from teenagers to
parents, weeping with laughter – and occasionally grief – over her
wry observations of social injustice and personal failings.
Flint…has written such ballads as The Bridesmaid
Dress Song about the horrors of seafoam-tinted taffeta. She also
sings a mock honkey tonk love song to “Food” belting out: Strudel
man, you rock! Fondue what can I say? You’re food on a stick. You’re
dipped with Chocolate and Cheese. No human being on Earth can give
me that kind of pleasure.”
The Washington Post
By Mike Joyce
The Four Bitchin’ Babes
Hormonal Imbalance
Subtitled “A Mood Swinging Musical Revue” the
latest CD from The Four Bitchin’ Babes is never more entertaining
than when the quartet is feeling a bit down, its attitude wavering
between high school-induced angts and middle-aged despair.
That’s when the Babes unfurl or revisit the most amusing songs on
this 15-track collection, songs about rapidly diminishing brain
power (Oh No!) and still fervent wishes (“Cheerleader), biological
turbulence (“Hot Flash”) and cruel, unforgiveable twists of fate
(The Boob Fairy). And no, as Deirdre Flint makes clear on the last
of the aforementioned songs,
you needn’t be of a certain age and
gender to sense a group hug lurking around the corn er, though it
wouldn’t hurt. “Hey! We’ve all felt the pain of being dissed by one
fairy or another…/ Maybe it’s the height fairy or the butt
nymph/Men maybe it’s the pectoral or
hair fairy.” ….
All four babes – Flint, Smith, Fingerett and
Moran, contribute songs, as do a few kindred spirits and though some
tunes are better suited to the concert stage than an iPod, few fans
will be disappointed with the results.”
MAIN LINE TODAY
Funny Lady
For every woman who has ever been a bridesmaid,
had a secret crush on or envied a cheerleader – okay for every woman
who endured adolescence, an evening with Deirdre Flint offers laugh
filled reminders of the teenage years and womanhood. The
Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter performs this month as part of
Smithbridge Cellars Winery’s Summer Caberet Merlot Series. Flint’s
infectious and highly hummable tunes combine with the satiric,
narrative lyrical style to take audiences through the joys and
heartache of growing up with songs like “Caroline Back to Me” which
chronicles a best friend moving on, and “The Boob Fairy,” in which
Flint laments certain anatomical inadequacy. Other songs reveal
life’s painful truths, like realizing that your ex-boyfriend’s new
girlfriend is a better catch than you, discovering that your past
lives weren’t any better than your current one and embracing food as
a girls real best friend – all with wry humor.
New Haven Advocate
By Christopher Arnott
We get a lot of our comedy through
music, including the ubiquitous breed of funny
female-songwriters…our favorite might be Philadelphia’s Deirdre
Flint, whose new CD Then Again mixes wistful but jaunty nostalgia
visions of romance and carefreeness with comic compositions like “I
Miss the 70s” and “Jenny of 100 Dates,” which describes several
dozen encounters, if not the advertised 100. And while it’s not
quite The Nails “88 Lines for 44 Women,” (which it strongly
resembles) it’s time the woman had their own run-down of rotten
relationships.
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
While the commercial market may not
often open its arms to funny folkies, Philadelphia-based Deirdre
Flint has been charming regional audiences who lean more toward pure
entertainment than the latest radio trend. Ah, but where there’s
talent, there’s always a shot at public radio, college radio or
roots-music formats 0 three destination more aware of content than
most. With titles like, “Introduction to Belly Dancing,” “The
Bridesmaid Dress Song,” “I’m Single,” and “The Boob Fairy”
well-illustrating the tenor of her current album, “The Shuffleboard
Queen” Flint is a crack-you-up lady who knows how to deliver
underdog messages with all the panache of a Christine Lavin or a
Jill Sobule. In “Cheerleader,” she aptly illustrates how many of us
interpreted those annoying high school pompom rattlers that carried
so much acclaim in younger years.
This is grown up satire with a
non-cynical wink and easily more compelling than so much that
reaches the million-selling mark.. Flint’s melodies are lovely, her
voice shines through like a less-polished Jewel on a number of the
tracks and she’s show her mettle as a top 20 seller in the
Amazon.com emerging folk category.
College of Wooster
Campus Activities
“Deirdre’s performance was an experience not to be
missed. Each song brought on new memories from the audience,
inciting laughter, singing and even tears.”
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