World Folk Siren Songs

Breath-taking vocals and world folk with heart for the earth

Susanna’s unique style weaves a mix of influences from British and Irish folk song, classical, to Indian and Persian vocal techniques. Accompanying herself on guitar, Indian harmonium and bodhrán and performing with Edinburgh’s finest musician’s.

Susanna has performed with Cathal McConnel, studied with Frankie Armstrong and Indian classical mistro Pashupatinat. She has performed the Edinburgh Fringe many times and festivals across Britain and continues to play at folk sessions and in improvisation events.

Since her first album in 2013 she has continued to weave traditional song and storytelling together, creating rare performances of musical theatre that have toured Scotland such as Remembering Brigid and Remembering our Earth. As well as in the community such as Psychiatric hospitals and community centres engaging audience participation and connection.

For many of us, lockdown put a pause on our lives and turned us inward, showed us things we didn’t always want to see and helped us look to who and where we are now. This was true for Susanna, she reflected on her experience of connection and disconnection in relationship to others and the earth, considering the past, the future, as well as our current impact on the earth. She imparted these thoughts in her song writing and in so doing she experienced a kind of river that helped her move from a sense of isolation into connection and a bigger vision of the world. This helped inspire her to return to recording and sharing her music once more. She hoped that through the expression of her individual experience she could cast her drop into the bigger ocean of world events and have some affect, all be it small. Hence the the monthly event she started recently at the Waverly Bar; an open stage for a guest and the audience to express their response to world events.