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CHERYL BURNS

Cheryl hugs her dulcimer Bodhran, Vocals, Mountain Dulcimer.

An extraordinary singer, percussionist and musician, Cheryl provides the rhythmic pulse behind the band's fiery tune sets on the Irish goat skin drum known as the bodhran. Her playing is at times subtle and tastefully understated in keeping with an older traditional style, but when the tunes get hot and the craic is fierce, the playful, walloping drive of her bodhran keeps the whole thing rolling.

Cheryl also brings to the band a unique style of Appalachian dulcimer playing. Wispy and delicate, Her dulcimer intertwining with Jim's guitar to weave an intricate texture behind songs and tunes. She often plays"cross key" rather than in the traditional diatonic "home key" method, playing perhaps in the key of A, G or E minor on a dulcimer tuned in the key of D. Each of her 5 dulcimers is in a different tuning, and no, she didn't make any of them.

Always in search of the obscure song, She pores over field recordings and invariably brings us some neglected gem to add to the Wren Band song bag.

Dulcimer viewed through a keyhole Her sensitive, emotionally charged vocals on such songs as "False, False", "The Orchard", "Sister Clarissa" and "Pat Come Over the Hill", weave a spell on unwary listeners who find themselves pulling Cheryl aside to say such things as "Lose the guitar player" Contact Cheryl.

Links:

Perkins.nu - Jim Perkins site

Great Dane Club of America

Bodhran in trad. music

Internet radio. All dulcimer, all day!

Mickey MacConnell - songwriter/ singer