Bill and Brenda Sutton met in 1984 on Compuserve's SF forum, back when it was a new and novel thing for people to actually meet and strike up close friendships with total strangers on a computer network.  They chatted online for more than a year before accidentally meeting each other at Bay Filk III.  In all their many online conversations, the topic of filking had never come up.  Even after talking together for several hours in a hall filk (where Larry Niven was schmoozin' Brenda, and Bill was schmoozin' Larry Niven), they didn't realize that they were old Compuserve buddies until Brenda stood up to leave, whereupon Bill noticed her name badge for the first time.  "Hey, I know you!"  "Right, I know you!"  They've been pretty much inseparable ever since.

These talented singer/songwriters started performing together in filk and folk circles right away.  They have recorded 4 solo albums (Bill - Past Due, Shake the Dust Off, Passing Through; Brenda - Strangers No More) and one combination album (Owling at the Moon), as well as numerous individual performances recorded on over 20 compilation albums.  In 1989, the Suttons branched out into Irish pub music as the duo Bed & Breakfast.  Brenda joined up with Teresa Powell and Gwen Knighton to form the award-winning trio Three Weird Sisters in 2000.  TWS's first two CDs, Rite the First Time and Hair of the Frog(released by Bill's publishing company Bedlam House www.bedlamhouse.com), receives international airplay and is one of the better selling folk/acoustic albums on the small press market.  Brenda is back in the studio recording the group's third CD, Third Thyme’s a Charm.

Bill is accomplished on guitar, mandolin, flute, penny whistle, and he's working on the violin.  Brenda also plays guitar, but her forté is the Irish frame drum, the bodhrán, which she plays with an innovative style all her own.  Bill won Pegasus Awards for Best Male Filker in 1986 and Best Techie Song for “Do It Yourself” in 1989, as well as nominations in several other categories.  Brenda garnered her share of Pegasus nominations, winning awards for Best Song for “Strangers No More” in 2001, Best Spine-Chilling Song in 2002 for “In a Gown Too Blue.” She shares a Best Performer award with her band mates from Three Weird Sisters (www.threeweirdsisters.com).

Bill is Vice President and a Director for Interfilk, a philanthropic organization that funds cross cultural music by sending talented though largely unknown filkers to music conventions they wouldn't ordinarily be able to attend.  Brenda is Interfilk’s co-treasurer and maintains the organization’s web site.  Together they also helped found and still run GAFilk, the relaxafilk convention held in Atlanta the first week of January every year.

The Suttons were inducted into the Filking Hall of Fame in March 2001 http://www.filkontario.ca/hofcitations3.htm#sutton.  Quoting from the induction award, "Their easy relationships and comfort with many different kinds of people from all walks of life is an inspiration. They support local filks and often seem more interested in hearing what other people are doing than in showing off what they've been doing... You can't ask for better advisors on music, lyrics, presentation, arrangement, and any number of other things. They make people feel good just by being around."

Bill and Brenda have raised five children and are expecting their third grandchild in August.  Bill is a Senior Consultant for telecommunications networking with Hewlett-Packard. Until they stunned their friends and family by picking up and moving from Atlanta to Danville, Indiana, Brenda ran the office and website, edited and published Mythic Passages, the e-zine of Mythic Imagination Institute. Now she works as Office Manager for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and publishes Soup’s On, a periodical for the Interfaith Hunger Initiative.