Susie Frazier Steps Into a New Musical Tour, Gathering Creative Collaborations Across Cities and Stages
Susie Frazier is preparing to take her work on the road next month with a multi-day musical tour that will open in Akron, Ohio. The schedule is set to unfold across several dates, with performances, artist sessions, and live audiences woven together into a packed run of evenings devoted to music, shared experience, and creative exchange. Frazier will perform alongside longtime collaborators and respected musicians, anchoring the tour in live sound while drawing from her background as a creative whose career has long moved between art, music, and community-driven storytelling.
The tour itself is designed to feel like a traveling conversation. Each stop will contribute a chapter, carrying the same artists forward while allowing each place to add its own texture. Music will lead the way, supported by visual art, live demos, and informal moments where audiences experience process as much as performance.
Frazier sees the project as a chance to let music live out loud again. “Sound has always helped me listen more closely to people,” she says. “When musicians share a room with an audience, something magical happens.” That sensibility will guide the tour’s structure, which will balance tight musical sets with room for discovery.
The artists joining Frazier will bring distinct voices shaped by long careers and evolving scenes. Strange Majik’s David Pattillo, a New York–based musician with deep roots in rock, blues, funk, and jazz traditions, will lead a band whose sound carries both grit and elasticity. His playing tends to move easily between eras, drawing from classic forms while staying alert to the present moment.
Jason Wein will enter the mix from the maker world, exemplifying his industrial aesthetic that merges craft, history, and performance. Derek Hess will add another layer, carrying decades of influence from illustration, music culture, and live promotion, often sketching or interacting with audiences in real time.
“Every collaborator will bring their own creative language, and I’m excited about how that mix could shape the tour,” Frazier says. “It may feel more like an exploration than a preset performance, where people can sense the chemistry growing in real time rather than watching something locked in place.”
The timing of this tour holds particular resonance. According to Frazier, many people share a sense of emotional weight carried through daily headlines, work routines, and the pace of modern life. “Collective moments still happen, though they often pass quickly,” she states. This gathering of artists leans into music’s older role as connective tissue, a shared rhythm that predates formal language and travels easily across generations.
Frazier adds, “Music reminds us that we belong to something larger than a single moment. It gives people a place to breathe together.” Within that context, Frazier’s vision for the tour is to serve as a contemporary expression of the familiar human impulse of coming together through sound when words feel insufficient.
The structure of the tour will unfold across four sessions, each designed to offer a distinct emotional register. The opening session will launch in a studio setting, where conversation and performance share the spotlight. The atmosphere is expected to feel intimate and curious, inviting listeners into the creative mindset of the artists as they trade stories and songs in front of a live audience. From there, the second session will expand to Auburn Corners, where music, making, and visual art intersect in a lively venue environment. The evening will blend performances with demonstrations and informal encounters, creating a sense of immersion that stretches beyond the stage.
The third session will carry the tour to Pittsburgh, introducing the music to a different cultural rhythm. That night will lean into movement and social energy, shaped by hospitality spaces where audiences gather after dinner and stay late. The sound will meet a crowd ready for texture and groove, allowing nostalgia and immediacy to coexist. The final session will bring the artists back to New York City, closing the arc in a historic East Village venue known for its enduring relationship with musicians. The return is poised to feel reflective and celebratory, connecting the journey’s starting point with its final resonance.
Throughout the tour, Frazier’s interest in sensory experience will inform the atmosphere. “Much of my work around sensory health and awareness will show up here through music instead of traditional design language. Rhythm, volume, and shared movement could help create an environment where people tune into their own experience in a way that feels natural to them,” she remarks. That idea of sensory synergy will thread through the nights, offering space for both intensity and calm.
As the tour approaches, anticipation continues to build around more than individual performances. The project speaks to collaboration as a social act that values presence and creative respect. These evenings will celebrate bands and artists, although they also highlight something broader: the way music continues to gather people across differences and distances.
