Another great night of music in Berlin, NH save Nov 7th for Susie Burke and David Surrette

Popular folk musicians and songwriters, Susie Burke and David Surette   light up the stage for a special fall evening concert at St. Kieran Arts Center on Friday, November 7, at 7 PM with great vocals, heartfelt lyrics and impeccable guitar playing. Sponsored by K. D. Paine & Partners. Tickets are $12 and $6 and available at the door. Check out their music and their fabulous performance at the Seacoast Concert for a Cure

Susie Burke and David Surette have made a name for themselves as one of the finest acts on the lively New England folk scene. Together since 1988, Susie and David have built a steady following for their own blend of contemporary, traditional, and original folk and acoustic music. Burke's vocal style is at once stunning and heartfelt, and is matched by Surette's fluid fretwork.  Susie Burke has been singing on Seacoast stages since the early 80s, as a soloist, a member of several local bands, and in several duos, including one with guitar whiz Harvey Reid. Her musical tastes and influences are varied and many, encompassing contemporary and traditional folk, swing, country, topical songs, and acapella singing, with detours along the way for Broadway show tunes and classic ballads. "She possesses one of the finest, purest ballad sopranos heard in folk music today" ,writes Scott Alarik in the Boston Globe.

David Surette has been performing in the Seacoast area since the mid-80s, both with Susie and with a number of other groups and musicians. He is well-known as a top-notch accompanist in New England's contra dance and Celtic music circles, and is also in demand as a studio musician. As a multi-instrumentalist, David brings a variety of stringed sounds to the duo; Folk Roots magazine notes that his "bouzouki, guitar, and mandolin playing is exemplary." In addition to performing and recording, Surette maintains an active teaching schedule, and is head of the folk department at the Concord (NH) Community Music School. He was awarded an NEA travel grant in 1994 to study the traditional music of Brittany, France, and has written a book of Celtic guitar arrangements for Mel Bay Music.   Recipients of Individual Artist Fellowship awards from the NH State Council on the Arts in 1993, Susie and David are also on the Council's Touring Arts roster. Together, they bring skill, taste, feeling, and pure enjo

St. Kieran Arts Center is a non-profit organization funded in part by grants from the NH State Council on the Arts, National Endowment 

 for the Arts, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation/North Country, the Jean & William Hallager Fund, The Falcon Fund,  Arts Center members, sponsors, and friends of the arts.