Based in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, Irish fiddler and singer Suzuki Cady brings a dynamic mix of acoustic Irish and American folk music to audiences in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

She plays in a duo with Jimmy Murphy, a trio with Amelia Hogan, Irish band New Wild Hog, and performs in session recordings.

In addition to the fiddle, Suzuki also plays the tenor guitar, tenor banjo, and bodhrán (Irish frame drum).

“Music is one of my primary outlets for artistic expression, mood alteration, and life affirmation. Using the universal language of music, I aim to create beauty and space for deep human connection that lifts the collective spirit and delights the ear.”

—Suzuki Cady

With an abiding love of traditional Irish music, Suzuki cut her teeth playing at pubs and private sessions throughout the Bay Area and in Ireland. Her fondness for the art form led to pursuits and outlets as far away as Galway, Ennis, Dublin, and Paris.

Suzuki has performed solo and in duos, trios, and larger bands, at restaurants, wineries, concert venues, weddings, funerals, house concerts, bedside for hospice patients, the Fairfax Festival, the O’Neill Irish Music Festival, the Fairfax Irish Music Festival, Bread and Roses concerts, and much more.

Suzuki began her singing career at age seven as a professional Colorado Children’s Chorale member. At age twelve, she was invited to tour mainland China with the Colorado Children’s Chorale Tour Choir.

Suzuki enjoys singing and playing a variety of folk styles, including Sean-nós (“old style”) Irish songs. Her sense of rhythm has been honed by a lifetime of dance training: an extensive background in Flamenco, Afro-Brazilian, West African, Congolese, and Rollerskate Dancing. She is currently studying Irish Sean-nós percussive dance.