Suzie Dickinson

Suzie Dickinson (4 June 1955 – 12 January 2018) was an Australian musician and songwriter. Originating from Melbourne, she was the lead singer and guitarist in the folk band Banshee, which was critically acclaimed for its original arrangements of American, Irish, English and Australian folk music and lilting, imaginative vocal harmonies. During this time Dickinson won two of Melbourne's "Free Entertainment in the Parks" awards for Most Popular Female Vocalist and Most Popular Female Folk Musician. at the invitation of record producer Trevor Lucas, from Fairport Convention. During her time with the band, Dickinson was included in the recording of "Let the Franklin Flow", a song about the ecological damage to be caused by damming Tasmania's Franklin River for hydroelectricity, and performed at the Stop the Drop concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl with Midnight Oil and Redgum.

Dickinson then formed her own alt country band The Cutters

Dickinson's singing and songwriting have won her two Australian Songwriter's Association Awards for Best Pop Song and Best Country Ballad for her songs "Straight from the Heart" and "We Live Apart". Her music was described by Anne Sydneham of NU Country TV as "more alt country than country....more rocky and rootsy", A proposed second album, titled Blossom, was planned for 2012, but was not released.

Dickinson's daughter Alisha (born 1973) died in 2016. Dickinson died in January 2018 from brain cancer. Her husband Dave Flett died in 2020.