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Cosy Sheridan

Cosy Sheridan first caught the attention of national folk audiences in 1992 when she won the New Folk songwriting contests at The Kerrville Folk Festival and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival; The Boston Globe wrote She is now being called one of the best new singer/songwriters.

She has been on the road ever since, playing clubs, concert halls and coffeehouses from Seattle to Berkeley and across and across I-80 to Omaha, Chicago and then to Boston where she now makes her home. On her new CD, Sometimes I Feel Too Much, she writes of these years on the road in her song Woody Guthrie Watch Over Me.

A Cosy Sheridan concert is a wide-ranging exploration: love songs for adults - and practical philosophy for a complicated world. She has written about the stock market crash of 2008 and fall-out from uranium mining in the American southwest. She has re-written Greek myths: Persephone runs away with Hades the biker. And then there are her signature parodies on aging and women.

Backed by the strong rhythms and harmonies of her bass player Charlie Koch, Sheridans concerts are full of energy and emotionality. Her songs are carefully crafted - and often shorter than the average folk song. Cosy writes intelligent and clever lyrics with stickable melodies, wrote Sing Out Magazine. She plays a percussive bluesy guitar style - often in open tunings and occasionally with 2 or more capos on the guitar.

Throughout her 25 year career, Cosy has continued to win fans and also rave reviews: her 2014 release, Pretty Bird, was chosen as one of Sing Out Magazine's "Great CDs of 2014. For the past 20 years she has taught classes in songwriting, performance and guitar at workshops and adult music camps across the country. In 2008 she co-founded the Moab Folk Camp in Moab, Utah.

To hear cuts from her cd, or to see video of Cosys shows, go to www.cosysheridan.com.