Born and raised near 125th street in New York City, Ms. Maggart is the first daughter of Broadway veterans Brandon Maggart and Diane McAfee, and the sister of singer/songwriter Fiona Apple. She graduated from LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts, where (extracurricularly) she studied singing and dancing. A protégée-mentor relationship developed between Ms. Maggart and Andrea Marcovicci after Marcovicci heard Maggart sing at a memorial service for the late Marshall Barer, with whom Maggart had made her professional debut, singing opposite Michael Feinstein in the musical Happy Lot by Barer and Hugh Martin.
   Ms. Maggart created a stir in the Los Angeles cabaret community with her debut show in Hollywood at the Gardenia, where Les Traub of Cabaret Scenes declared her “destined to become a major cabaret star.” Miss Maggart subsequently performed a weekly show at the Gardenia for six months. She has since appeared as guest artist with Michael Feinstein in Long Beach, Chicago and New York, and with Andrea Marcovicci at the Plush Room in San Francisco, the Gardenia in Hollywood, the Barclay Theatre in Irvine, and most recently, the Oak Room in Manhattan.
   Miss Maggart was thrilled to make her New York debut in 2001 with Mr. Feinstein as running guest artist at Feinstein’s at The Regency during his “A Holiday in New York” performances. She has performed at New York’s Town Hall in the annual Cabaret Conventions of 2001, 2002, and will return again in 2003 for the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s 14th Annual Convention. Ms. Maggart has developed a new cabaret show based on the women and the music of the nineteen-twenties, a theme inspired by her Grandmother’s early career as a dancer in “George White’s Scandals.” She has performed the show numerous times at the Gardenia to rave local reviews, and she looks forward to premiering the show in San Francisco when she makes her Plush Room debut in October 2003.