Susan Lyons, is originally from Washington, D.C. and currently resides North Brookfield, MA. She has been playing music since she was a small child. Her father, Lynn Lyons, Sr. was an attorney by day with the U.S. Government in Washington, D.C.  and a union pianist during the evenings accompanying orchestral big bands like the Dorsey Brothers, as they toured through the Metropolitan D. C. area.

As a result of her father’s influence, Susan began playing percussion, drums, at age 10. In her late teens and 20’s she accompanied her father playing jazz and also played with rock bands in the Maryland/D.C. area…

When did you first realize you wanted to be an artist?

My brother gave me his used 35 mm camera when I was 14 and I started first by taking pictures of landscapes and nature scenes.  Later I experimented by taking candid portraits of my friends and family.  Once I set up a darkroom in my parent’s basement and started to develop and print my own black and white images I was hooked. From that point I studied photography whenever I had time and planned to someday have a career in photography.