About Shawn

Shawn Eiferman | Artist | Song Writer | Musician | Vocalist | Entreprenuer

Shawn Eiferman has been performing and writing music for almost 20 years, but has spent his whole life surrounded by entertainment. His mother was a world-famous opera singer and his father was a pioneer of body building(former Mr. America/Mr. Universe), who later did shows with Mae West and Debbie Reynolds, and made television and film appearances for more than thirty years.

Shawn began playing guitar at the early age of nine growing up in Bellingham, Washington, before his family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada where he currently resides and performs regularly as the house entertainment at both the House of Blues Las Vegas, and the Guitar Bar at Addison’s inside the Rampart Casino in Summerlin. Shortly after moving to Las Vegas, he jumped into the local scene with both feet, playing solo gigs for seven years and earning UNLV’s College Entertainer of the Year award two years in a row. In 1994, he won a Battle of the Bands competition by himself against eleven full-piece bands!

Shawn founded and fronted an acoustic modern rock band, Epsteins Mother, for the last six years. He decided to continue his work as a solo artist after the band’s break up in September 2001.

The following is a list of accomplishments and accolades Eiferman has garnered over the years:

  • Played to almost 20,000 at MIX 94.1fm’s 2003 Bite of Las Vegas opening for Macy Gray, Frank Perez, Wilshire, and Uncle Cracker with his new band…PONDER!
  • 1st place winner in the 2001 USA Songwriting Contest(rock category)..2nd place overall!
  • Catch this guitar playing, joke cracking, rock n roll singing, incredibly talented wild man before he makes it big.
  • In Music magazine calls him an all-around hip musician and scenester with an extensive repertoire and dynamic stage presence.
  • Eiferman brings a sense of humor and breezy competent style to his stage his songwriting is an honest collection of work that puts him above the average entertainer.
  • Voted Best Guitar Player in Vegas In Las Vegas Weekly Annual Readers Poll, 2000.
  • Featured in Gig, L.A. Weekly and Music Connection magazines, being compared to everyone from Dave Mathews, Tonic and Hootie and the Blowfish to Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. Performed with and/or opened for Edwin McCain, Hootie and the Blowfish, Sugar Ray, Barenaked Ladies, the Violent Femmes, Sister Hazel, Paula Cole, Sammy Hagar, Pat Benetar, Todd Rundgren, Train, Toby Keith, the Goo Goo Dolls and Guns N Roses, to name a few.
  • His songwriting has been featured on the WB’s Dawsons Creek, a Ford Motor Company ad campaign, USA Network’s Farmclub.com TV Show, Canadas Much Music program Ed The Sock, and many episodes of MTV’s Undressed and Road Rules shows. Shawn’s VH1 debut was on the 2000 Fairway to Heaven, performing with members of Creed, Collective Soul, Bon Jovi, and Backstreet Boy A.J. Mclean.
  • Eiferman has a national fan base that stretches north to San Francisco all the way to Atlanta, where he recently performed at the Hard Rock Cafe. Spins on both college and commercial radio and return engagements at clubs, universities and venues all over the country, combined with the release of his new album, Misunderstood, should rapidly bring him to the next level of his career and open the doors for a whole new list of future accomplishments.