Megan began singing Jazz in Kansas City in 2002 as a featured vocalist with Greg Richter and David Basse at The New Point. She soon became favored by many other KC notables including Dan Doran, Rob Whitsitt, and Mark Lowery. Later that year she fronted her own jazz trio called Birdsong, and in 2004 began to sing lead for Kansas City’s power house blues band The Nortons.  

When Cafe Trio opened in 2004 she began doing intimate duo and trio shows in the true jazz tradition, working with Mr. Richter and a host of others including Bobby Watson, Bob Bowman, Jeff Harshbarger, and Jill Atherton. Soon she was headlining the best clubs in town: Jardine’s Jazz Club, The Phoenix, The Blue Room, Plaza III, and 12 Baltimore. In 2006 Megan was asked to be the featured act at the reopening of the historic Drum Room in the Hotel President.

Her first album, Track 13, was recorded at Soundtrek Studios and released in 2005. This record was an amalgam of jazz, blues, and pop, and featured songs by artists as diverse as Cole Porter, Joni Mitchell, and the Beatles, as well as original material.

In 2006 she began preparing her second record, Little Jazz Bird, a record that would be dedicated to the exploration of the traditional jazz standard. National jazz luminaries such as Mike Melvoin, Mike Metheny, and Paul Smith signed on to perform. Within the first month of recording she was diagnosed with a degenerative arthritic jaw condition that threatened her career and her life. She required maxio-facial reconstructive surgery of a very specialized kind to move her jaw off of her windpipe, which had become severely labored, leaving her only four millimeters of airspace. 

In the next six months, Megan finished Little Jazz Bird, and through the support of the Jazz community and a city that stood behind her, she was able to release the album a month before she underwent the surgery. 

Megan feels very blessed to be accepted at such a young age into this community of immensely gifted musicians. Her passion is to help “carry the torch” for the heart and soul of jazz; not only by carrying forward the great standards, but also by bridging that tradition to other forms of musical expression, creating new statements and keeping jazz alive for today’s world and for generations to come. Her loyalty to Kansas City Jazz, the music, and the passion of the performance craft at its heart will be what drives her for years to come.