ABOUT
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Eileen Quinn is a cruiser, songwriter and recording artist. With over 40,000 sea miles and countless beach bar performances behind her, few singers are as qualified to describe the ups and downs of the cruising lifestyle. Eileen grew up in Ottawa, Canada, as the fourth in a family of six children where she learned to raise her voice to be heard above the din. She picked up her first guitar at sixteen. In the real world, she studied social policy and worked in the mental health field and in politics (the latter was the "crazy" setting). Her last respectable job was chief of staff to a cabinet minister in the Ontario government. Eileen met her husband, David Allester, when he returned from a two year cruise of the South Pacific on a boat he'd bought with a couple of buddies. David was the only one to come back single, so she had to marry him.
Eileen
and David left Toronto in September 1994 aboard their Bayfield
36 sailboat, Little Gidding. For the
past twelve years they've cruised the eastern seaboard and circled
the Caribbean.
Eileen
has performed at everything from local beach bars to international
regattas throughout the Caribbean, and for national boating
associations and boat shows in North America. |