BIO
Susan Grace started singing around the Detroit area at local coffeehouses in the early 70's. For several years Susan presented a program entitled 'Michigan in Song'. Performing at libraries and historical societies throughout the Great Lakes Region this program took an educational and entertaining look at Michigan's history.
For several years in the early 80's Susan performed with the Great Lakes Clogging Company, teaching clogging workshops and performing at festivals throughout the mid-west. Susan also organized and operated a local coffeehouse, the New Roots Coffeehouse, for monthly concerts.
In 1985, after moving to Alaska, Susan began to write more and more of her own songs inspired by the natural beauty and wilderness that surrouonds her. Making Fairbanks her home she has toured extensively. Traveling in the beginning with environmental programs; the Earth First Roadshow, and then the Last Great Wilderness. Since 1991 Susan travels on her own throughout the lower 48 touring in the fall and spring.
Whenever she is home susan is very involved with the community organization Friends of Creamer's Field. A non-profit educational organization for the Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks.
Summer is spectacular in Fairbanks. It's time to play outside in the 24 hour daylight, gardening, picking berries, and working part-time at Camp Habitat. Camp Habitat is the environmental education program that Susan developed and began the summer of 1991. It has been extremely successful and attended by hundreds of children ages 4 through 15. There is indeed hope for the future and Susan works as hard as she can to make a difference on this earth.
Combining her love and experience of education and music, Susan has been very successful in developing her songwriting workshops. She has done Artist in Residence in 4 different states and had unique experiences working in the villages of Alaska.
