#Steel city jazz festival 2014 professional#
#Steel city jazz festival 2014 series#

She performed on tours with him in 20 and was also featured on a number of his live radio shows. Suzie was also fortunate to work with the CBC Vinyl Café’s Stuart McLean a number of times.

She was thrilled to do her first show in New York City, opening for John Hammond Jr at the Madison Square Park Conservancy and also make it to the finals of the Solo/Duo Category at the 2013 International Blues Competition in Memphis, TN, and perform on the stage of the Orpheum Theatre. Suzie has performed across Canada, the United States, Europe and many other parts of the world and in 1998 was blessed with the opportunity to perform for Canadian Peacekeepers in both Bosnia and the Persian Gulf the Bosnia trip was her first overseas trip and an experience that was life-changing. Suzie has sung a number of national jingles she was the voice of Tim Horton’s from 2006-2011, singing their jingle “Always fresh, always Tim Hortons.” She also has sung jingles for Shoppers Drug Mart, Interac, Knorr Soup and Kellogg’s Special K.

Her songs have also been placed in various Film and Television shows. Suzie has won numerous awards for her songwriting, including twice winning the International Songwriting Competition’s Blues Category for her songs “The Honey I Want” co-written with Liz Tansey and David Leask and “Sometimes I Think I Can Fly”, co-written with Dan Kershaw. She was honoured with the CBC’s Saturday Night Blues Great Canadian Blues Award and the Sirius XM Canada Blues Awards in 2012. The recipient of 10 Canadian MapleBlues Awards, Suzie also won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Vocalist of the Year. Suzie has also guested on albums by Stephen Fearing, Dean McTaggart, Colm Wilkinson and Treasa Levasseur, to name a few. Two of Suzie’s solo albums, “Happy Here”, produced by Juno-Award winning artist Stephen Fearing, and “Me “n’ Mabel”, produced by Danny Greenspoon, have received Juno nominations and her trio, The Marigolds, also received a Juno nomination. Suzie has released six solo albums and another eight in various collaborations with other artists. She also performed with Saskatoon jazz musicians in a project called “Barfly” and made her Saskatchewan Jazz Festival debut with her group “The Blues Unit” as winner of a contest put on by Buds On Broadway in co-operation with the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival. She spent many Saturday afternoons in her late teens at the Buds On Broadway jam in Saskatoon, first performing then helping to host the jam. Some of these experiences included performing with the Saskatoon Lions Band Concert Band and Stage Band, studying for four summers at the Kistner Jazz Camp in Fort San, SK travelling throughout Saskatchewan singing and playing bass in a duo called “The Sultans”, playing electric bass for two years in the University of Saskatchewan Jazz Ensemble backing up artists such as saxophonist PJ Perry and vocalist Big Miller. As a teenager, Suzie worked with many music teachers and embraced as many musical experiences as she could to nurture her love of music. Suzie took her first guitar lesson at the age of nine at the Saskatoon Guitar College, and learned to play saxophone and bass guitar in elementary and high school concert and stage bands.

#Steel city jazz festival 2014 professional#

Suzie Vinnick is a professional musician originally from Saskatoon, SK, now based in the Niagara Region in Wainfleet, ON.

#Steel city jazz festival 2014 series#

The Saskatchewan Jazz Festival is honoured to present Suzie Vinnick with the 2019 Special Recognition Award at 7PM on Friday, June 28 th as part of the Nutrien Free Series at the Bessborough Gardens mainstage.