Cabarrus Arts Council

Susan Werner has become one of the defining artists of the folk music genre. Over the course of her colorful career, this singer songwriter has cultivated a reputation as a daring and innovative songwriter with a killer live show.  Her songs effortlessly slide among folk, jazz and pop and are delivered with sassy wit and Midwestern charm.  She is classically trained and boundlessly versatile, alternately playing the piano and the guitar.  Nashville’s Music Row summed it up with “This woman is great, period.”  Stephen Barefoot, executive director of the North Carolina Presenters Consortium, who has organized thousands of performances, said this about her recent concert at Thalian Hall in Wilmington:  “It ranks among the top three performances of my lifetime -- so phenomenal I can’t even begin to describe it.”