Susan Werner – An Evening with One of the Most Innovative, Genre-Spanning Songwriters Working Today

Name: Susan Werner – An Evening with One of the Most Innovative, Genre-Spanning Songwriters Working Today
Start: 2026-04-18T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-18T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 7 E 4th St, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA

Schedule

Sat Apr 18 2026 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

7 E 4th St, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA | Bethlehem, PA

“(Werner is) a songwriter and musician who is in such complete command of her gifts that it’s almost scary.” — All Music Guide
Susan Werner brings to Godfrey Daniels a body of work that stretches across folk, jazz-influenced pop, musical theater, gospel, and classic American song styles. A lifelong musician with formal training in voice, piano, and guitar, Werner’s performances feel like a guided tour through her wide musical world—smart, finely crafted, and full of personality. Her songs have been recorded by artists from Tom Jones to Michael Feinstein, and her recent album The Birds of Florida continues her tradition of inventive originals. This show offers a close-up look at a writer and performer who keeps redefining what a modern songwriter can be.
SUSAN WERNER
susanwerner.com
Over the course of her twenty-five-year career, Susan Werner has earned a reputation as “one of the most innovative songwriters working today” (Chicago Tribune). With formidable chops on guitar (she began playing at age 5) and piano (she was a guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz), along with a graduate degree in voice performance, her shows are a one-woman master class in musicianship. Although best known as an acoustic songwriter that came up through coffeehouses and folk festivals, the Chicago-based artist has written songs in the style of Gershwin and Cole Porter (I Can’t Be New, 2004), gospel music (The Gospel Truth, 2007), traditional Cuban “son” (An American In Havana, 2016), and New Orleans junk piano (NOLA, 2019). In 2014, she composed the music and lyrics to the musical theater score Bull Durham, The Musical (MGM). Her songs have been recorded by Tom Jones, Michael Feinstein, and Shemekia Copeland, and her latest recording of originals, The Birds of Florida, took flight in 2022.