Susan Hedges

Susan is a blind singer songwriter based near Liverpool England who plays keyboards, guitar, piano and mandolin and who has been performing since she was six.
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Among Susan’s awards are;
• Merseyside BT Woman of the Year Award ‘Best Newcomer’ and placed 3rd in main category.
• BBC Radio Merseyside Best Vocalist Award
• Dada Fest’s ‘Young Performer’ from North West Arts Forum.
• Susan was voted ‘The Act Most Likely to Succeed’ at The International Pop Overthrow Festival, Liverpool, 3 years running and ‘The act most people wanted to see there again next year.’ Her song ‘River City Girl’ came 4th in the survey and 3 of her other songs featured in the Top 20.
• Voted most popular artist/ Act at International Pop Overthrow Festival 3 years running
• ‘Spirit of Hope Award’ from Hope University
• UK Songwriting Competition Finalist.
• MBF Songwriting Finalist.
• Linda MCartney Songwriting Competition Finalist

Quotes
‘A major talent on the threshold of recognition.’ The Independent. (Taken from a 3 page article on Susan)
‘When Susan Hedges performs, she hypnotises people’ Alan Bleasdale. (THE Famous Playwright)
‘An album full of elegant and original songs’ The Times.

Projects
1. Soundtrack to documentary shown on BBC 2. Wales.
Title of the film ‘I Ain’t Looking for Your Sympathy’ is a line from her autobiographical song ‘The Fighting Kind’

2. Vocals on adverts include, Carpet World, Diamond Car Insurance, Esure and Delta Airlines which was broadcast internationally on satellite TV and on radio.

3. Susan’s 3rd solo album ‘Faces Without Names’ was launched at the IPO Festival in Greenwich Village New York and received great critical acclaim from national press, e.g. Rock & Reel

TV and Radio Appearances; Include Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ BBC Breakfast TV, Granada TV, and frequent appearances and airplays on Radio Merseyside and Radio City.
Frequent theatre perfomances include North Wales Theatre, Llandudno. The Empire, Liverpool and The Floral Pavilion, New Brighton.

Festival appearances with her band ‘The Other Kind’ include:-
Main stage at the Mathew St Festival, Liverpool
Headlining at the Liberty Festival in Trafalgar Sq London,
The Truck Festival, Oxford,
‘In the City’ Manchester.

Solo festival performances include:
‘Summer Nights Festival’ Edinburgh,
‘Americana’ Newark Showground,
‘Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival’ Devon
Liberty Festival Trafalgar Sq London
IPO Festival (including The Cavern) Liverpool (frequently)
IPO Festival New York
Los Angeles (frequently at various venues)
IPO Vancouver (frequently)
Sheffield Pride

Some Acts Susan Has Opened for: Billy Bragg, The Christians, Magic Numbers, Ian MacNabb, Emmy Lou Harris, Little Feat, Steve Earle and Nanci Griffiths, paul Young, Chip Taylor and many more…. Most recently was working with the legendary James Burton who has asked me to play at his club in Shreveport Louisiana. USA

Susan is a patron of 2 charities
‘The Jellybean Appeal’ for sick children at Arrowe Park hospital. Wirral, and ‘Attitude is Everything’ a national charity based in London to promote access for disabled people to music venues and festivals. She is also an active supporter of Sahir House, a local aids charity and works closely with ‘AimHigher’ and SKILLS encouraging young people into higher education.