Greg Partridge: Bass – Greg does video editing and some audio engineering and he is athletic and newly married (for the first time). She and Lee moved down from Indianapolis to start a band in 1991. Susan Fitzsimmons: Vocals, guitar – Susan works in the technology industry, is a bee keeper, enjoys cooking and travel, and IU basketball. Who we really are, since we’re not Susi French:

It’s intoxicating.įinally, no one in the band is named Susi French, though she is a real person that we know and she lives in a different state. No one ever danced when we played our own songs way back when, and the novelty still has not worn off. Whenever possible, we make sure the tables are moved and the dance floor is open. Our repertoire is near 200 songs now, and consists of some classic soul (ala Stevie Wonder), some singer/songwriter nuggets (ala Carly Simon), and a lot of disco and dance music (ala Bee Gees, KC, Abba). He says he still feels like the newbie, but that honor really goes to Scott Hamilton (drums) and Lynne Tanzer (singer), both of whom began playing with us in 2014. Susan, Lee, Greg and Becky are founding members of the Susi French Connection, and keyboardist Allen Broyles replaced Brandon Bush in 2005. No – just kidding – have three people in your band that are single and make them promise never to mate or acquire a mortgage. If you are considering starting a band, save yourself some heartache and leave out the drummer.

We now use Google Calendar to keep track of each other and that helps, but seven is a lot of people to organize. We generally play every other month, either at a private event or a club. Three of us used to be in a band called the Gentle Readers and after several albums of original music, we decided to do a show of covers we liked and we called in friends to help us and now we are only the Susi French Connection and it is fifteen years later. We, the Susi French Connection, are a group of seven Atlantans who started playing 70’s songs in 2000.

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