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Jean Bayou has maneuvered her way through motherhood, womanhood, the neighborhood (and other hoods too numerous to mention) to write songs of love, loss, redemption and bad family vacations.

Jean’s works have been marinating long enough, and her first CD is almost here (maybe this Fall?).  It promises to be a rip-roaring collection of the songs that she has been performing at local venues for the past several years to appreciative audiences that sometimes even included people other than her coworkers, friends and family!

Through her characters such as Vivian who lives in oblivion to avoid a world which she perceives as obsessed with perfection, to the mom who goes in search of a fake ID so she can get all the stuff senior citizens get for free, or the woman who decides to take charge of her own life and stop “Knocking on a Deaf Man’s Door,” Jean weaves stories that are poignant and believable.  And often funny.  She writes from personal experience, on both piano and guitar in a variety of styles.  Her song “Just a Mammogram,” has become the number one song in the heads of her female friends and fans when they go for their annual exams.  A dubious honor indeed, but one she takes seriously, having lost her mother to breast cancer.

Jean is still joyfully President of the Songwriters Association of Washington (SAW), and has, to her great surprise, received two Washington Area Music Association Awards for Executive of the Year. She also served for three years as Director of the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for SAW.  And she is still working on getting her whack back . . . Yay!