The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129175   Message #2897502
Posted By: open mike
30-Apr-10 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Folksinger Susan Reed RIP (1926-2010)
Subject: RE: Obit: Folksinger Susan Reed RIP (April 2010)
yes. she is the one mentioned in the "susan reed lp" thread
with a reference to her shop which sold "folk clothing,
jewelry and art" in Nyack, NY ...

also in that thread is mention that she was in a rest home in 2009

....Nyack Antique and Craft show....just across the Hudson from our Westchester County...I spotted a store on the corner that said 'Susan Reed'....I asked the... elderly lady behind the counter if she had an Irish Harp. (Back in the 40's, Susan Reed was known and parodied for climbing on a tall stool and saying with her innocent soprano girlish voice, "This is an Irish Harp.".....she pulled out an LP which I recognized as an antique itself. ..I told her about the Mudcat and her contemporaries who are om it ("Jean Ritchie! She's years older than I am!").....she started as a girl of sixteen (sixty years ago),...She said she still sings, but mostly in the local park, recalls her most recent gigs at some folk festival in or near Philadelphia ("I love the people in Pennsylvania"), she's painted...album covers... for Tom Chapin's CD's.