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ezFolk Forums > ezFolk Audio Hosting > Featured Artist of the Week > Featured Artist - 04/09/07 - Steve Suffet |
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 Above: Pete Seeger and Steve Suffet perform in children's concert at the Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. January 29, 2005. Steve Suffet Steve Suffet is best described as an old fashioned folksinger. His repertoire is a mixture of railroad songs, trucker songs, cowboy songs, union songs, old time ballads, blues, ragtime, Gospel, bluegrass, topical-political songs, and whatever else tickles his fancy. He takes songs from whatever sources he wishes and then he sings them his own way, maybe rewriting the lyrics on the spot, flatting a 7th, or changing a major key to a mountain modal. Steve also writes his own songs, sometimes set to the tunes of traditional folksongs, but more often set to original tunes composed in traditional style. Some of Steve's songs have appeared in the Folk Process section of Sing Out! magazine over the years. Others can be found in the Digital Tradition on-line folk song database and in the archives of the Centre for Political Song in the U.K. In the 1960s, Steve appeared at several of the legendary Broadside hoots in New York City, was a guest on Izzy Youngs radio program on WBAI-FM. and regularly performed at various pass-the-basket coffee houses in Greenwich Village. Steve then left the organized folk scene for nearly 30 years. Steve returned to the folk scene when invited to appear at a Sis Cunningham Tribute Concert in 1997. Since then he has played gigs all around the New York metro area, including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, South Street Seaport, Sun Music Company, the Community Church of New York, CB's 313 Gallery, the Baggot Inn, and the Peoples' Voice Cafe. In addition, Steve has been featured on the Songs of Freedom cable television program, has appeared in the Songs of the Spirit workshop at the Clearwater Hudson River Revival, has performed at the New England Folk Festival in Massachusetts and the NOMAD festival in Connecticut, and has led workshops for the People's Music Network and for the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club. Steve now often performs as part of a group called MacDougal Street Rent Party, although he also continues to perform on his own as well. Steve's two CDs, Now the Wheel Has Turned and I've Been Up On the Mountain, are now available from CD Baby: http://cdbaby.com/all/suffet
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What fun music! Thanks for sharing!!! Holley
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