Sue and I perform together as often as we can. She teaches ukulele to different groups in Connecticut and played old-time fiddle for community dances before the pandemic. We were able to do a few concerts on Zoom for facilities like nursing homes during the last year as well as a few outdoor gigs.
Both of us have always been interested in Tin Pan Alley era music — anything from the 1900s through the 40s. The category is pretty loose but songs like “Hello My Baby” or “Shine on Harvest Moon” come to mind. We had one concert outdoors at a nursing home and we wanted to send the activities director a thank you card but we had nothing ready. They were still promoting Sue based on the old name of her group “Black-Eyed Susie” so we needed a name. We toyed with “Lehndorff Hill” because it sounds like a place. But my name is hard to spell and pronounce. We also looked at naming us after one of my songs but that didn’t fit either.
Then I kept saying our names Sue/Peter and came up with Soupeater. We are working up the Tin Pan Alley show as well as a Country/Folk and traditional show. Both shows would have a little bit of musicology added in. We like to talk a little about the history of the songs and the writers. We also have our “History of Funny Songs” show. We are still working on the repertoire but the Tin Pan alley show is likely to be almost all covers unless I can sneak one of my jazzier songs in. The country folk show would have a few of my originals.
We are looking for bookings. We even have outfits!
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