CHERYL BURNS
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.
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.
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Links:
Perkins.nu - Jim Perkins site
Michigan Folk Live
Folking Music
Great Dane Club of America
Bodhran in trad.
music
Internet radio. All
dulcimer, all day!
Mickey MacConnell
- songwriter/ singer
The Ark
Irish music internet radio
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