Steve Suffet's Musical Friends
Photo by Takako Nagumo.
Use the links below to visit the websites of some of Steve's musical friends.
Mike Agranoff
Mike is an all-around musician and an all-around funny guy. He is also one of Steve's high school classmates.
Hillel Arnold
Hillel is a singer-songwriter, as well as a former assistant archivist at the Woody Guthrie Archives.
Alan Friend
Alan is living proof that a city slicker can play and sing authentic old-time country music.
Bev Grant
Bev is a musical powerhouse who has written some incredibly inspiring songs, such as Together We Can Move Mountains. In addition, she is a music arranger, a concert producer, and the director of the Brooklyn Women's Chorus.
Allen Hopkins
Allen could well pass himself off as a time traveler from the 19th century. Certainly his clothes and musical instruments are from then. So are many of his songs, some about canals, some about trains, some about the American Civil War, and some brought to America by Irish or Jewish immigrants.
Alison Kelley
Alison is an educator and a designer, as well as an exceptionally fine singer of songs from several traditions. She performs as a member of four different vocal groups: the NexTradition, the Johnson Girls, New York Packet, and Ida Red.
Jody Kolodzey
Jody is a poet, ethnomusicologist, and photographer. She took the photos for Steve's second CD, I've Been Up On the Mountain, and can be heard among the back-up singers on four of the tracks. In addition, Jody took the photos for Pete Seeger's Grammy-nominated CD, Seeds.
Ray Korona
Ray is a singer-songwriter, political activist, and one of the founders of the Peoples' Voice Cafe in New York City. He is also the sound engineer who recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered Steve's two CDs.
Joel Landy
Joel is a singer-songwriter, parodist, producer of the Songs of Freedom cable TV program, and a fellow member of MacDougal Street Rent Party.
Mimi LaValley
Mimi is a veteran of several punk, indie rock, and country bands. She is also a singer-songwriter who carries the folk tradition forth in her music and goes around imposing it on unwitting rock hipsters in basements and night clubs throughout North America.
Heather Lev
Heather is a singer-songwriter who can make skeptics believe she is the reincarnation of the late and great Malvina Reyonlds.
Eric Levine (1957-2008)
Steve's beloved comrade in song and in struggle, Eric passed away at the age of 51. He had been a member of MacDougal Street Rent Party, the musical director of the Disabled in Action Singers, a member of the People's Music Network steering committee, and much more.
Jay Mankita
Jay describes himself as an existential troublemaker who presents relevant but irreverent songs and stories. That's as good a description as any. He travels around the country in a van fueled by vegetable oil.
Anne Price
Anne is a folksinger with a beautifully rich voice and an enormous repertoire of both traditional and contemporary songs, including a few she has written herself. She is also a member of MacDougal Street Rent Party.
Jean Ritchie
Jean is truly a national treasure. For more than half a century she has taken the traditional music of her native Kentucky and brought it to appreciative audiences throughout the world.
at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
July 8, 2007.
Photo by Takako Nagumo.