On Sunday, February 19, 2012, 4-6 pm, Harmony House Concerts will feature one of folk music's favorite singer-songwriters, Cosy Sheridan, performing with her partner TR Ritchie. Even if the groundhog sees his shadow on February 2, this performance will bring sunshine and warmth to your day. Cosy and TR's humor is pervasive and contagious.
(Read Cosy's "bio" below to learn more about her musical career and vision.)
Make reservations by calling 903/583-2661. The requested donation is $15 per person with all proceeds going to the performing artist. To prepay, make your check to Cosy Sheridan and mail to Faye Wedell; P.O. Box 812; Bonham, TX 75418, to be received by February 15. Refunds will be made on any cancellations made by February 15. Guests may also pay at the door, but please notify us of your intent when making reservations. Anyone making a reservation is responsible for payment without following the cancellation policy, as we often have a "waiting list." Thank you for your cooperation. We only book "the cream of the crop," and this is their livelihood, as well as their passion.
Cosy and TR will play two sets of 45-mintes each. There will be a 30-minute intermission. At these events, Faye & Scott provide bottomless cups of coffee, tea, and assorted punches, as well as snacka and sweet treets for guests. There will be a basket on the table in the breakfast room for an optionsl $1 cash donation to help defray expenses.
Following the concert, there will be an optional Potluck Dinner. Faye & Scott, the hosts, will provide eggplant parmegiana. Those partaking in the Potluck are asked to bring other dishes with an Italian flair. When making reservations, please indicate whethe you plan to stay for the Potluck Dinner. Let Faye know what you intend to bring, if possible, in order to avoid too many duplication.
After the Potluck, we invite folks to stick around for a song circle. If you play an instrument, bring it along with you. You can enjoy a song circle and sometimes a "sing-along," whether you play, sing, or just listen.
Check out our website, www.WildscapeAcres.com. There is a link to Harmony House on the website, and our 2012 schedule is posted there. We have one house concert per month....lots to look forward to!! Now, singer-songwriters are already booking for 2013....time flies.
More about Cosy:
Cosy Sheridan has been called "one of the era's finest and most thoughtful singer/songwriters." A winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival NewFolk Showcase and the Telluride Troubadour Contest, she has played everywhere from Carnegie Hall and The Jerry Lewis Telethon to the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Her songs have appeared in best-selling author Robert Fulghum's book "Third Wish" and in the documentary "Lines Across The Sand."
Together with her partner, fellow songwriter and bassist TR Ritchie, Sheridan gives one of the most entertaining and intelligent concert performances on the folk circuit. She is a storyteller as well as a songwriter; she weaves children's stories into tales of modern adulthood: The Little Engine That Could talks with Ferdinand The Bull about achievement verses contentment. Her modern renditions of mythology (we meet Hades The Biker) have won her fans and praise from the press. The Cornell Folksong Society wrote, "Sheridan is frank, feisty, sublimely and devilishly funny. She fuses myth with modern culture, Persephone with Botox."
In her latest critically acclaimed CD, "Eros," Sheridan weaves a cycle of songs about love. Sing Out! Magazine wrote, "Cosy Sheridan possesses an eccentric muse, or perhaps it possesses her. That's all for the good as this muse leads her into explorations to which other writers are oblivious."
Sheridan's masterful guitar style is a testament to years of honing her craft (she was a student of Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg), as is her voice (she studied voice at Berklee). She first appeared on the national folk scent in 1992 when she won the songwriting contests at Kerrville and The Telluride festival and released her critically acclaimed CD "Quietly Led" on Waterbug Records. Folk Music Quarterly wrote, "When she's accepting her Grammy, we can say we knew her when."
Since then she's released 6 more CDs, written a one-woman show entitled "The Pomegranate Seed - An Exploration of Appetite, Body-Image and Myth in Modern Culture," and co-founded the Moab Folk Camp with Ritchie. She is a songwriting and performance teacher at adult music camps across the country, among them The Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in Washington, The Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina and Summer Fishtrap in Oregon.
Scott Alarik, author of "Deep Community; Adventures in The Modern Folk Underground," sums up Cosy and her music this way: "She is a very funny and enormously amiable entertainer with a keen and wicked eye for the excesses of our fast-food, TV-happy and noisome culture."
To see videos, listen to some of Cosy's music, and become more "enlightened" about Cosy's talents and projects, visit her website, www.cosysheridan.com.