laboration with a number of nationally known artists along the way. In recent years she sat in with
Buckwheat Zydeco and did tour dates with Jonathan Edwards.
She has taken pit stops as a solo artist, but always wears the songwriter jacket while traveling
and touring. “As a solo artist and songwriter in the
late 90’s, I had a band, major management and legal
representation in New York City and interest from
both Sony and Motown Records,” said McCann, who
was also sponsored by DW Drums.
Paul Costley, a pillar in the NH music scene
known both for his musicianship and his industry
work, met McCann in the early 80’s and has worked
with her on many projects over the years. Costley
had this to say about McCann:
“She was playing a lot of the same rooms that my
band at the time was playing. She was in a band
called The Regular Einsteins and they were a really great band. Pam was just this little thing playing drums and hitting them harder than most guys
I had every seen play. She had a voice like Aretha
Franklin and over the course of the following years
we became good friends. Pam had a great reputation
in the North Country of NH and was a well-respected musician. Over the years I have referred her to
friends of mine to sub with their bands as a drummer and the report I get back is always, ‘man that
girl is great and boy can she sing.’”
McCann, a woman of so many talents and appreciations, embodies art and music. She said, “Painters,
poets, authors, composers, film, architecture, city
sounds, the sounds of nature, geography, the ocean
and male and female musicians within all genres
have influenced and continue to influence me.”
Now her life’s path, forever paved in music, has
brought McCann to her newest project, Senayit, a
duo with singer and guitarist Senayit Tomlinson,
who is also self-taught. The two songwriters were
immediately connected, both musically and personally.
“Senayit and I met a little over a year ago on a
‘musical blind date’ set up by a mutual friend,” said
McCann. We are both songwriters, I had a trio at
the time and was working on my solo album down
in Mass., she was working as a solo artist and we
joined forces.”
McCann and Tomlinson immediately found they
had so much in common including their strong disgust for the titles “girl-band” and “female-artist,” as
if men need to be labeled as “male-artist ϊt