Cheryl is a natural storyteller who brings you into her world of love and loss, of beautiful small-town America and the life of a traveling performer. Her comedic chops have been described as “Groucho-in-a-housecoat” where she shreds the mores of greedy, trend-obsessed culture but aims many of the darts squarely at herself.

As the late Scott Alarik wrote, “Wheeler emerges as a gifted and open-hearted songwriter approaching the sure summit of her craft. Her abiding faith in her audience’s ability to find their own life reflected in the sweet spaces of her songs reveals an artist comfortably wearing the austere genius that defines folk music’s best traditions.”

Photograph by Cathleen Joyce

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Opening the evening is New York City-based singer-songwriter, studio musician and writer Kenny White. Kenny has worked with numerous artists including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Gladys Knight, Linda Ronstadt, Ricky Scaggs and Mavis Staples. He has written and produced hundreds of TV and radio commercials and numerous well-known film soundtracks including four films with indie director John Sayles. White tours the UK and Europe every spring and was awarded the International Songwriting Award at the Premio Ciampi Music Festival in Livomo. Italy.

He’s opened shows for many mainstays including Cowboy Junkies, Peter Wolf, Shawn Colvin and Jonathan Edwards. Kenny also appears on dozens of recordings of other musicians, including Marc Cohn’s platinum debut. His latest album, Long List of Priors, is a collection of indelible snapshots of the human condition from heart wrenching to hilarious.

Photograph by Jeff Fasano

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• Cheryl Wheeler possesses one of the most gorgeous voices of anyone in the folk, or any, genre. With an unbelievable range, her tone is so rich and expressive there is almost no lyric she cannot make interesting. Add her skill as a songwriter and you have one of the most talented folk musicians of the last 30 years. Elmore Magazine
• Rare artist . . . strong poetry, complex melodies, clever wit. Sing Out!
• From the ridiculous to the sublime, Cheryl Wheeler really knows how to write and perform a love song, as well as its alter-ego, the breaking-up or lost-love song. Driftwood Magazine
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• If Mark Twain could sing and play piano like a virtuoso, his name would be Kenny White. Stu Kirby, The Strand, Hudson Falls, N.Y.