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Suzuki Cady brings acoustic Irish and Americana music to audiences in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She sings, harmonizes, and plays the fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and bodhrán. She also composes original tunes and teaches Irish Music for All Instruments class.

Her duo, Hardly Strictly Irish (Suzuki Cady and Jimmy Murphy), perform an uplifting, signature mix of traditional Irish tunes and Roots/Bluegrass/Americana vocal blends on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, and bodhrán at events throughout the SF Bay Area.

With an abiding love of traditional Irish music, Suzuki has played extensively at sessions throughout the Bay Area and further afield. Her fondness for the art led to pursuits and outlets as far away as Galway, Ennis, Dublin, and Paris.

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’s sense of rhythm has been informed by a lifetime of dance training. She has an extensive background in Flamenco, Afro-Brazilian, West African, Congolese, and rollerskate dance. She is currently studying Irish Sean-nós percussive dance.

Suzuki has worked with Stevie Cornell, TresNoctamble with Marla Fibish, among other projects, and co-founded the bands New Wild Hog and The Pure Drops.