Cosy Sheridan
www.cosysheridan.com

From Carnegie Hall to the Dr. Demento Show to the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Count these, and almost everywhere in between, as stops along the way for Cosy Sheridan and her music. Meanwhile, the critics have raved.

"Sheridan remains the unapologetic voice of our conscience." - Album Network.

"A buddhist monk in a twelve-step program trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter." - Albuquerque Tribune.

"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

Cosy has garnered top honors from the country's most prestigious songwriting contests: The Kerrville Folk Festival's NewFolk Award, The Telluride Bluegrass Festival's Troubador Award, and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Songwriting Showcase Award. Cosy has five cds on the Waterbug and WindRiver/Folk Era record labels. Her song, "Too Much Time", was included on the critcally acclaimed Putamayo compilation CD, Shelter, in 1994.

She has taught songwriting at The Swannanoa Gathering in Asheville, North Carolina for the past three summers. Two of her articles for Acoustic Guitar Magazine were recently included in the instructional book, Performing Acoustic Music, published by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. She was a voice student at The Berklee School of Music in the late 80's, and also a guitar student of the master fingerstyle guitarists Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg.

Her friend Catie Curtis called her a combination of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dr Ruth and Deepak Chopra. National Fingerpicking Champion Harvey Reid called her a musical sponge. She travels with her yoga mat but without her gallbladder. She's candid. She's compassionate. She's very sharp. She'll talk about anything on stage. She might sing songs about body piercing, a more user-friendly Barbie Doll, the loneliness of her elderly neighbor, or how small and humble things in life, like ants, can sew your heart back together. She can bring tears to your eyes, from sadness or from laughter. She's very good.

Her favorite quote from an audience member? "You're so real!"