Suzy and Eric Thompson: Live in Concert

Name: Suzy and Eric Thompson: Live in Concert
Start: 2025-09-12T19:00:00-04:00
Location: The Old Brick Playhouse

Schedule

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Old Brick Playhouse | Elkins, WV

The Augusta Heritage Center is proud to present a concert with Suzy & Eric Thompson on September 12 at the Old Brick Playhouse.
Suzy and Eric are monster musicians with exceedingly impressive resumes. Amongst many other claims to fame, Suzy was a founding member of the cult-favorite all-women supergroup the Any Old Time String Band (with Elkins' own Val Mindel!). Eric had a band with Jerry Garcia before he started that other band...
Doors at 6:30 p.m., Concert at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for sale at the door ($18)
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More about the musicians:
Suzy and Eric Thompson, from Berkeley CA, have been performing music together for over 50 years, in bands including the California Cajun Orchestra with Danny Poullard (2 award-winning albums on Arhoolie), Blue Flame Stringband, the Todalo Shakers, the Bluegrass Intentions, etc. as well as in their duo and also in Thompsonia with daughter Allegra. During the 90s and early 21st century, they were on staff at Augusta’s Cajun-Creole and Old Time weeks, and they look forward to returning to Elkins after a long absence.
Over the years, Eric and Suzy have worked with everyone from Jerry Garcia (Eric, in the pre-Grateful Dead bluegrass/jug band days) to Cajun fiddle legends Dewey Balfa and Ann Savoy (Suzy) to David Grisman (Eric, beginning in their teenage bluegrass years) to Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur (Suzy, including Geoff Muldaur's "Texas Sheiks".)
They'll play a mix of Cajun, blues and old-time music, plus material from Suzy's recent "Suzy Sings Siebel" (a collection of songs by 1970s songwriter Paul Siebel - his most famous song was "Louise", famously covered by Bonnie Raitt, Leo Kottke and many others)