Tonight, at 8:00 pm est on March 1st, the Ides of March, The Frankie and Johnny Music Hour, www.blogtalkradio.com/frankie–johnny and the Unstoppable Frankie Picasso and co host Wendy Ally, have all conspired with the fierce March wind to blow in the sweet strains of Saskatchewan-born, Toronto-based singer, songwriter, session musician, concert performer and recording artist Suzie Vinnick.
Suzie is an award winning performer who Access Magazine dubbed, The Voice of Spun Gold and Honey and it’s a perfect description. Suzie who plays plays bass, guitar, saxophone, piano, Dobro, lap steel and mandolin is one of the busiest session players and singers in the Canadian blues/roots music and jazz communities, having made appearances on more than a dozen recordings by other artists.
Suzie is a frequent headliner at festivals across the country and in the U.S., and in November shared the Massey Hall stage as musical director and featured 
artist in the Toronto Blues Society’s annual all-star Women’s Blues Revue.Suzie was nominated for a 2009 JUNO for her 3rd album, Happy Here, produced by Juno-Award winning singer/songwriter Stephen Fearing.
She was nominated for two 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA’s) and has also won 6 Canadian Maple Blues Awards – 4 for Female Vocalist of the Year in 2009, 2008, 2006 and 2003; Bassist of the Year in 2006 and she shared Songwriter of the Year with Rick Fines for their 2006 release, Nothing Halfway.
Suzie also won 1st place in the Blues Category of the 2009 Unisong International Songwriting Contest for her cowrite Sometimes I Think I Can Fly. She has been featured nationally on CBC Radio on Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Café, and has performed across Canada and the US, and for Canadian Peacekeepers in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf. She performs powerfully as a solo act or with her tasteful side players, as a duo and band with Rick Fines, and is also a member of the groups the Marigolds (with Gwen Swick and Caitlin Hanford of Quartette) and Betty & the Bobs. 
Suzie’s CD’s..
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