Contact B.J. Suter

P.O. Box 7052
Boulder CO 80306

B.J. has been a musician all her life, and studied music in college. She plays piano, guitar, banjo, and mandolin beautifully. She has the knack of picking up anything with strings and being able to play it immediately!

She joined the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society in the 80’s but did not start serving on the board until 1998. She served as president from 2001 through February of 2007, and is still on the board. She came up with the idea of the CBMS Compilation CDs, and did most of the work to make four of them happen. It is even more impressive when you consider that the last two "Compilation CDs" were actually two CDs each! In addition, she used her artistic talents to help design many of the CBMS t-shirts during her tenure as president of the board.

She started going to the International Bluegrass Music Association national convention, and represented Colorado. She was chosen to attend Leadership Bluegrass, a very prestigious group, in 2003, and was instrumental in providing a showcase there that featured musicians from Colorado and the West. One of her songs, "Blue Love," was selected to be showcased at the IBMA convention in 2007.

She is a songwriter, wildly-creative composer, and has co-written songs with Bill Farmer and Sandy Reay . Two of her instrumental compositions are on two of the CBMS Compilation CDs—one co-written with Bill. The songs she co-wrote with Sandy are featured on Colorado Sandstorm Music Publishing .

She is a founding member of the bands Still Lookin' and WhoYaSay?

BJ (kneeling, left) was one of 14 people nominated for the SCFD 2008 Rex Morgan Citizen Volunteer Award. She received a certificate, was congratulated by Mayor John Hickenlooper and was honored at a dinner for the nominees at the Chambers Grant Salon in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Nov. 19, 2008..

with Shadow Mountain String Band: Bill, Sandy, Mike, Ron, B.J. Jan. 2008, Victorian Dance Caribbean Cruise, Carnival Conquest

Red Molly with Michi * Regier, Sandy Reay, and Bill Farmer at Swallow Hill Folk Festival, August, 2005 (Article from "The Hub"; Note: band is incorrectly identified in the photo caption.)

BJ with Bill Donaldson at the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society table at Swallow Hill

BJ (4th from right), Bill Donaldson (far right), other volunteers at the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society Jamboree and Pie Social, Swallow Hill

WhoYaSay? with Bill Farmer and Sandy Reay

Still Lookin' at Swallow Hill Folk-a-Thon