SIDE BY SIDE

SUSAN T. REID and PAUL BLUESTEIN 

Susan T. Reid and Paul Bluestein each have been playing string instruments for more than fifty years – just not together until recently. Susan started as a guitar player in her teens, did some fiddling around (the string kind) later in life with help from Eileen Ivers and eventually took up the banjo, which her friend Pete Seeger taught her to play. She comes from a love of American folk, Celtic, and other world music traditions and released an album of selected favorites titled “Bridges to Home” in 2016. Paul Bluestein got his first guitar (a Sears Silvertone) when he was 16 and learned to play by listening to the folk singers of the 60’s and then the folk-rock of the 70’s. Performing together as the duo Side by Side, they have blended very different genres of music into a delicious stew they call “North Country” that tastes of Appalachia and Greenwich Village with a sprinkle of Long Beach, California. Bon Appetit!

LISTEN:

Recording credits ~

VERSO Studios @ Westport Library

Travis Bell ~ VERSO Studios Manager and Sound Engineer

Erik Paul ~ Sound Technician

Take 'Em Away
Author: Old Crow Medicine Show
Glendale Train
Author: New Riders of the Purple Sage
Ain't In No Hurry
Author: Jim Eagen
Dixie Highway
Original by Paul Bluestein
When There's Two There's Trouble
Author: Michael Falzarano
Child of the Wild Blue Yonder
Author: John Hiatt; Arr. Susan Reid and Paul Bluestein
Neria
Author: Oliver Mtukudzi
Wildflowers
Author: Tom Petty
Lonely People
Author: America
Say Darlin' Say
Author: Traditional
Close Your Eyes
Author: James Taylor
Catfish John
Authors: Bob McDill and Allen Reynolds
Roseville Fair
Author: Bill Staines
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Author: Bob Dylan
Tupelo Honey
Author: Van Morrison
I Know You Rider
Author: Traditional
Dink's Song
Author: Traditional
Wagon Wheel
Authors: Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor/Old Crow Medicine Show
Midnight Moonlight
Author: Peter Rowan / Old & In the Way
Nine Hundred Miles
Author: Cisco Houston

CURRENT SHOWS & COMING SOON:

Saturday, June 13th 2026 10:00-12:30 ~

Farmers Market of Black Rock ~ St. Ann’s Field at 481 Brewster Street ~ Bridgeport, CT

Tuesday, August 25th 2026 Time TBD ~

Black Rock Library, 2705 Fairfield Ave. ~ Bridgeport, CT

Saturday, September 19th 2026 10:00-12:30 ~

Farmers Market of Black Rock ~ St. Ann’s Field at 481 Brewster Street ~ Bridgeport, CT

Saturday, October 10th and Saturday, October 17th 2026 10:00-12:30 ~

Litchfield Farmers Market ~ Litchfield Firehouse, 258 West Street ~ Litchfield, CT



PAST SHOWS:

Dogwood Festival at Greenfield Hill Congregational Church ~ Fairfield, CT

Roxbury Pickin' & Fiddlin’ Festival at Hurlburt Park ~ Roxbury, CT

PorchFest in Black Rock ~ at Joy’s Front Porch ~Bridgeport, CT

Black Rock Farmers Market at St. Ann’s Field ~ Bridgeport, CT  

Acoustic Music Series at Shields Hall, Ridgebury Congregational Church ~ Ridgefield, CT

First Folk Sunday with Suzanne Sheridan & Friends ~ Saugatuck Rowing Club ~ Westport, CT

Pop up shows On The Road ~ On the front porch of the Cracker Barrel in Staunton, VA; at stops along the Blue Ridge Parkway; and at Martin & Co. in Nazareth, PA

GALLERY:

CONTACT INFO:

Phone: 203-417-5851

Email: susan@susanreidmusic.com