Singer-songwriter and painter, Suzanne McDermott currently works and blogs in her Nashville studio.

Between 1993 and 2002, Suzanne recorded five critically acclaimed albums of songs and toured extensively throughout the US and Europe. In the course of her longer performance career, she has shared the stage with the likes of Gore Vidal, Dory Previn, Bert Jansch, Roger McGuinn, Bill Morrissey, John Gorka, Cheryl Wheeler, Livingston Taylor, Tom Paxton, Laurie Lewis, Dar Williams, and Martin Sexton, performing in such venues as Passim, Siné, CB's Gallery, Godfrey Daniels, The Point, Eddie's Attic, The Bluebird, McCabe's and The Freight & Salvage. Suzanne was a finalist in the prestigious troubadour competition at the 25th Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

In 1997, Suzanne developed her intensive and inspiring Basic Drawing and Watercolor Workshop for the Kiawah Island Resort in South Carolina. She has since taught that workshop throughout New England, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Suzanne studied fine art, design and art history at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Santa Monica College, and earned a BA in Humanities (Drama, Art and Music) from New College, Sarasota, FL. Working primarily on commission, her artwork has been featured in solo and group shows in Los Angeles, Sarasota, FL, Charleston, SC, Petersburg and Culpeper, VA, and is in private collections in the US and Europe.

In previous incarnations, Suzanne worked in theater, museum exhibit design, classical music publishing, world and experimental music, for a couple of legendary folk clubs, and administered international chamber music festivals. She also worked at MIT for the Office of the President, as staff to chairs of the faculty, and at the Media Lab for the Music & Physics Group. She was secretary to Sarah Vaughan, and served as a US delegate to the People's Republic of the Congo.

Suzanne plays a Dana Bourgeois guitar.

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