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If your idea of a folk singer/songwriter concert is a bunch of people clapping politely after songs, and then sitting quietly while the performer says things like “This next song is about ...”, well, you’ve never seen a Cheryl Wheeler concert before. Cheryl’s concerts are more like what you would find at a comedy club than expect to find at a folk music concert. She will tell a story that has you rolling in the aisles, and then sing a song that leaves you wiping tears from your eyes. She will talk about some serious current event, and then sing a song that will have you howling with laughter. Her entire concert is an emotional roller coaster. Bill Pringle, cherylwheeler.com
Cheryl Wheeler, called a ‘curmudgeon’ by many critics, says that “I recognize that there is a certain irascible quality about me.” Perhaps that is why the me&thee chose to book her for their winter opener. Cheryl Wheeler’s music speaks to everybody’s twin selves: the good and the bad, the sensitive and the ugly, the warm and the cutting. Audiences appreciate both the lovely sentimentality of her lyrics as well as her hilariously biting songs.
Wheeler is a gifted and openhearted songwriter. Her faith in the audience’s ability to find their own lives reflected in the sweet spaces of her songs reveals an artist who comfortably embraces folk music’s best traditions, showing herself both poet and comic.
Wheeler’s album “Sylvia’s Hotel” contains carefully crafted portraits like “His Hometown” and acutely political songs like “If It Were Up to Me,” an anti-gun diatribe. A native of Tinonium, Maryland but currently a resident of Massachusetts, she has written hits for Dan Seals and Suzy Bogguss, has recorded six albums and is one of the biggest draws on the folk music circuit.
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