Next Linden Tree Coffeehouse Features Cosy Sheridan

The following was provided by the Linden Tree Coffeehouse:

The Linden Tree Coffeehouse is pleased to welcome Cosy Sheridan back to New England on Saturday, May 4 at 8pm.  Cosy Sheridan has been called “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful singer-songwriters.”  She first caught the attention of national folk audiences in 1992 when she won both the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk Award and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival Troubadour Contest, then released her critically acclaimed CD Quietly Led on Waterbug Records.

Since then Cosy’s released nine more CDs, taught songwriting at workshops and camps across the country and written a one-woman-show entitled The Pomegranate Seed – An Exploration of Appetite, Body-Image and Myth.  She is one of the most respected touring musicians on the folk circuit, appearing everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Jerry Lewis Telethon and the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Her concerts are wide-ranging explorations: modern renditions of mythology (meet Hades the Biker), children’s stories woven into tales of modern adulthood, blues and gospel guitar and love songs for adults.  Her alter ego, Chlamydia, often 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.”

In 2011 when she released her tenth CD, 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.

Her longtime musical partner, Kent Allyn on bass and keyboards, will be joining Cosy. Cosy and Kent first started working together on Cosy's CD "Late Bloomer" in 1989 and have been doing concerts and recordings together whenever she is in the northeast." "Listen to Sheridan’s music on her Web site at www.CosySheridan.com.

  Thanks to support in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Wakefield Council, tickets will be $18, students under 13 $10.

 Home made baked goods and beverages will be sold prior to the show and during intermission.   The Linden Tree Coffeehouse is located at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 326 Main Street, Wakefield.  For reservations and information about the Linden Tree, www.LindentreeCoffeehouse.org, LindenTree85@comcast.net, 781-246-2836.