Susan Butler is from the Miramichi, in the northern part of New Brunswick. Susan is a singer and songwriter with seven recordings to her credit. She has been featured on many CBC programs throughout the Maritimes. She has been awarded the Paul Harris Medal by the Rotary Club for her contributions to the arts, and has been recognized by the National Folklore Society of Canada.
She is director of the longest standing Folk Festival in North America, the 37 year old Miramichi Folksong Festival.
Susan has sung in many parts of Canada and the USA. Susan has sung for such noted people as Pope John Paul and the Prime Minister of Canada. She has performed with singers: Frank Patterson, John Allen Cameron, Valdy, John McNulty, The Rankin Family, Barra MacNeils and fiddlers, Graham and Eleanor Townsend.
She is involved with promoting of local, provincial and national performers in presenting concerts in New Brunswick.
This past year Susan performed and organized over 40 concerts throughout New Brunswick, featuring: fiddlers, singers and dancers.
Randy Vail started playing in his own band while in Belleisle Regional High School in the mid-fifties. During the late fifties, he also performed several times on the “Bud Brown’s Capital Co-op Jamboree”. During this time some of the notable performers on the show were Fred McKenna, Earl Mitton plus many more.
Since that time, he has played with numerous bands and has been fortunate to have performed with some entertainers such as Johnny Forrest and Marg Osborne. He has also had several bands of his own. At a very young age he had the opportunity to accompany Eddie Poirier in what he believes was the first fiddling contest in which he won.
Randy was one of the founding members of the original Country Clover Band and also played bass for George Hector for a number of years.
He presently has a band called “Lost Highway”. They perform at dances, shows and some private functions each year. They usually play on weekends and during the later years have taken the winter off.
“Lost Highway” has a lot of top quality, experienced musicians in it. They are: John Somerville, Mike McNamara, Steve Lyons and Joyce Boone.
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