Cosy Sheridan at Coho in Amherst, Friday Oct 3
With Eric Phelps opening
Cosy Sheridan has been called one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters, and also ‘a buddhist monk trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter’. Her music regularly tops the folk radio charts. Her CD, Pretty Bird, was listed among Sing Out Magazine’s Great CDs of 2014. Her concerts are wide-ranging explorations: ragtime guitar and social satire, modern renditions of mythology ( meet Hades the Biker ) and tales of modern adulthood. Her alter ego, Chlamydia, sometimes appears with songs such as “Botox Tango” or “Multiply Pierced.” The Cornell Folksong Society wrote: “Sheridan is frank, feisty, sublimely and devilishly funny. She fuses myth with modern culture; Persephone with Botox.”
A guitar student of instrumental luminaries Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg, and a voice student at The Berklee School of Music, she brings a depth of experience to her craft. She plays a percussive bluesy guitar style – often in open tunings and occasionally with two or more capos on the guitar.
She first caught the attention of national folk audiences in 1992 when she won both the Kerrville Folk Festival’s NewSong Award and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival Troubadour Contest, and then released her critically acclaimed CD Quietly Led on Waterbug Records. Since then she has released more than 13 CDs and written a one-woman-show. Her songs appeared in author Robert Fulghum’s multi-media novel Third Wish.
In 2011 when she released “The Horse King,” The Chicago Examiner wrote: “You can’t make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you’re doing, and do it well. Rarely do you find a CD where every song is memorable. It happens, just not often. It happens here.”
Cosy’s New CD
The Breathing Room by Cosy Sheridan with Charlie KochThe Breathing Room
Cosy Sheridan with Charlie Koch
New in 2025!
More on Cosy’s site -
https://cosysheridan.com/
She is the director and founder of Moab Folk Camp in Moab Utah. She has taught classes in songwriting, performance and guitar at workshops and adult music camps across the country.
“She is a wonderfully lively, very funny, and enormously amiable entertainer with a keen and wicked eye for the excesses of our fast-food, tv-happy and noisome culture.” – The Boston Globe.
“Cosy writes intelligent and clever lyrics with stickable melodies.” – Sing Out Magazine
“She is a wonderfully lively, very funny, and enormously amiable entertainer with a keen and wicked eye for the excesses of our fast-food, tv-happy and noisome culture.” – The Boston Globe.
“With clear poetic lyrics and mostly-acoustic arrangements based around Cosy’s impeccable guitar work her songs are cradled in simple arrangements that complement her well-written lyrics…. Even though these are her stories, you’ll feel them reflected in your own life. “The First Song” is a break-up tune. In less experienced hands this topic could lumber along like a bad journal entry but instead, it feels like a conversation with a friend where all you need to do is give her a cup of tea and listen.” Jamie Anderson, Sing Out Magazine
“Sheridan is frank, feisty, sublimely and devilishly funny. She fuses myth with modern culture; Persephone with Botox.”The Cornell Folksong Society
“Even when singing, she seemed to be sharing confidences, with her earthy soprano marked by a captivating rounded vowel phrasing that was distinctive but never affected. A whispery texture gave her topical ballads a hushed urgency, her lonely love songs a windswept plaintiveness, her humanistic meditations a wistful honesty. sharp, hilarious satires of our vain pop culture,interspspersed with poignant ballads about surviving child abuse and Alzheimer’s disease were powerful in their intimate detail and deep-cut empathy. In her revealingly personal philosophical songs, she bravely acknowledged that life’s darkest corners cannot always be swept clean, adding great credibility to her frequent theme that healing begins in simple self-belief. Cosy Sheridan originals are upbeat, often tongue-in-cheek, and always clever. “and some compositions almost resemble show music in their productions.” – Gary Tuber, Chicago Examiner
Series: First Friday Concerts at Coho
Venue: Great Room at Cherry Hill Cohousing, 120 Pulpit Hill Road in North Amherst.
Doors open at 7 PM, Concert starts at 7:30.
$15-$25 suggested donation
This is a smoke and fragrance-free venue.
Facility is wheelchair accessible
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