Suzie Dickinson

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"Suzie Dickinson's music sits in the space where country and folk overlap. She engages her audience with a troubadour muse that reminds me of Jona Lewie, John Sebastian or Ray Davies. Suzie is a gifted songwriter with a story telling style that shines fresh light into familiar spaces in our lives. The songs are wry and bitter, yet warm and re-assuring at the same time. The unusual combination of Suzie Dickinson's clarion voice and assured rhythm guitar with Dave Flett's inventive bass guitar, sets the sound of Suzie's performance apart from the rest of the pack...."
- Richard Fields TRAILBLAZER RECORDS/'LIVE AND LOCAL' 3CR RADIO
“.....the combination of a beautiful voice with great, catchy songs that lingered long after the performance had ended.”
- BEAT MAGAZINE
Suzie Dickinson has enjoyed an exciting and eclectic musical career. She was the lead singer, musician and dance caller in the folk band Banshee, which she formed with Roger Corbett of the Bushwackers. Banshee was critically acclaimed for its original arrangements of Australian, Irish and American folk music and lilting, imaginative vocal harmonies. During this time Suzie won two FEIPP awards for Most Popular Female Vocalist and Most Popular Female Folk Musician. Banshee was a regular guest on Shirley Strachan’s (Skyhooks) TV show ‘Shirl’s Neighbourhood’.
Suzie was then invited to join PC and The Pickups, which was the house band for the famed Texan Cowboy bars, Spurs. This gave her the opportunity to experience the Country music scene, performing nightly to packed houses around Australia. The band also performed on the festival circuit including the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Record Producer Trevor Lucas, from Fairport Convention asked her to join the Goanna band (famous for their No 1 hit Solid Rock) with Shane and Marcia Howard. While with the Goanna band, Suzie was included in the recording of ‘Let the Franklin Flow’ and performed at the Stop the Drop concert at the Myer Music Bowl with Midnight Oil and Redgum.
Suzie then formed her own country band, The Cisco Kids. Band members included singer songwriter Hugh McDonald (Redgum), Dave Flett (Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band), Ed Bates (The Sports), Steve Groves (Tin Tin). Suzie later re-formed Banshee to join in on the exciting resurgence of interest in the Melbourne Irish Music Scene with the fiddle/mandolin player Michael Harris (Bushwackers, Whirling Furphies). Suzie’s other bands have included The Cutters and The Hummingbirds and among the performers were The Legendary Ross Hannaford (Daddy Cool, Renee Geyer), Stefan Fidok (The Reels, Lisa Miller Band), John Bone (First Violinist Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra)
Suzie and Dave Flett, also performed as a duo touring extensively throughout Australia and a short stint in the United States.
Suzie’s singing and songwriting have won her two ASA National Songwriters Awards for Best Pop Song and Best Country Ballad for her songs ‘Straight from the Heart’ and ‘We Live Apart’.
Currently Suzie is performing her original songs with her band around Melbourne and Victoria and is finishing off her new album due for release in May 2007. Suzie and her band also perform unplugged at House Concerts, festivals and special events playing guitar, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer and bodhran with multi instrumentalist Justin Brady (Things of Stone and Wood) and dobro and electric guitar player Matt Green.