Cosy Sheridan

DATES: Sept 18-20, 2026 

Tuition: $325

Tuition includes a concert Friday night and dinner on Saturday night. After dinner we will have Student Coffeehouse in Nelson Town Hall.

BASIC SCHEDULE

• Friday night • Concert at Nelson Town Hall
• Saturday and Sunday • Workshops
• Saturday night • Student Coffeehouse

WORKSHOPS

• Cosy Sheridan | Songwriting: How do we build a song that will run on the energy of our emotions? That will say what we feel? How can we find an idea for a song? This workshop is for all levels of songwriters, from the very beginner to the more advanced. We will look at the tools of songwriting, as well as using writing prompts to help students learn to build a song from scratch.
• Sloan Wainwright | Voice: Sing Heart Body and Soul - Inside each of us lives a beautiful and unique instrument, so let's sing together with joy and freedom. In this playshop we will move our bodies, soften our hearts, open our mouths, and let our voices out to play. With an emphasis on vocal health and self-care, we'll use a combination of vocal warm-ups and work-outs to help relax, release, strengthen, and be in relationship with the voice, making it more flexible and reliable.
• Charlie Koch | Guitar
• Glen Roethel | Guitar

Join us for two days of creativity, fun, and friendship at our 3rd year of The Song Sessions. Classes begin Saturday morning. 

To register, or for more info, send a message to Cosy using the Contact form. 

Local housing available: $60/room per night.

Instructors

Sloan Wainwright is a songwriter, singer, performer, teacher, mentor and collaborator. A unique hybrid of pop, folk, jazz and blues, Wainwright’s music is unified by her melodious tone and rich, powerful contralto. Over the course of a 30-year career in music, she has played the great concert halls, the most storied listening rooms and top music festivals while also teaching at the nation’s leading music retreats. She has inspired hundreds of students on their creative journeys and collaborated with dozens of musicians, writers, choreographers and performers. 

Cosy Sheridan has been called “a Buddhist monk in a twelve-step program trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter” and also one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters. She first caught the attention of national folk audiences in 1992 when she won both the Kerrville Folk Festival's NewSong Award and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival Troubadour Contest and then released her critically acclaimed CD, Quietly Led. A guitar student of instrumental luminaries Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg, and a voice student at The Berklee School of Music, she brings a depth of experience to her craft. Backed by strong rhythms and harmonies by her bass player Charlie Koch, she plays a percussive bluesy guitar style. She is the director and founder of Moab Folk Camp in Moab, Utah.

Charlie Koch has trained horses, sailed across the Atlantic more than once, and fronted an R&B band. He skippered a race boat for Buckminster Fuller. He whipped in for a fox hunt in Ireland and saddle-broke young horses on a breeding farm in France. He taught tennis, skiing, and horseback riding. He trained as a body-oriented psychotherapist. These days he tours playing bass for his wife, singer/songwriter Cosy Sheridan.
 

Glen Roethel is an award-winning singer/songwriter/entertainer with thousands of hit songs up his sleeves, and he knows what makes a performance exciting. He brings an irresistible energy to song camps, events, music gatherings, and more—especially on guitar and harmony vocals in concerts as Sloan's accompanist.