Cosy Sheridan

• Folk

Cosy Sheridan has been called one of our era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters. She has played everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Cowgirl Hall of Fame as well as most of the folk clubs across the country. As The Chicago Examiner wrote: “You can’t continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you’re doing, and do it well.”

She plays a percussive, bluesy guitar, often in open tunings and occasionally with two or more capos on the neck. Backed by the strong bass rhythms and harmonies of Charlie Koch, her concerts are a wide-ranging, entertaining, and tuneful experience. “Frank, feisty, sublimely and devilishly funny” as described by the Cornell Folksong Society.

She first appeared on the national folk scene in 1992 when she won the songwriting contests at both The Kerrville Folk Festival and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The Albuquerque Journal dubbed Sheridan “a buddhist monk in a 12 step program trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter.”

Cosy teaches workshops in songwriting, guitar, and performance all over the country, and is also the founder and director of Moab Folk Camp in Moab, Utah.

“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.”
– Boston Globe