Biography

Cosy first caught the attention of national folk audiences  in 1992 when she won the New Folk songwriting contest at The Kerrville Folk Festival and the Troubadour Award at The Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and then released her critically acclaimed CD “Quietly Led” on Waterbug Records. The Boston Globe wrote “She is now being called one of the best new singer/songwriters.”
Her 2014 release, Pretty Bird, was chosen as one of Sing Out Magazine's "Great CDs of 2014.” The title song charted in the Top 100 Songs of 2014 on the “Folk DJ” list. West Side Folk dubbed her “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters.” She was voted the Best Artist of 2014 by the iconic radio show Bound For Glory.
In her new CD, Sometimes I Feel Too Much, Cosy weaves deeply felt experiences from her own life into finely crafted musical tapestries - connecting the personal to the universal, and inviting us to a deeper experience of our own life.
Known for her modern interpretations of myth, the first song, Eurydice Goodnight, is a goodbye to her home in the American southwest and parallels the story of Orpheus’ and his lost wife with saying goodbye to a beloved landscape. The second track, I Am Your Landlord is a tip of the hat to the Texas swing of Asleep At The Wheel and The Austin Lounge Lizards and includes a full horn section. The bass line is driven by Cosy’s bluesy percussive guitar style which is the bedrock for all of her songs. A former student of 6 string luminaries such as Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg, she has been called one of the best women guitarists on the acoustic scene.
For the past 20 years she has taught classes in songwriting, performance and guitar at workshops and adult music camps across the country at such camps as  the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop and The Swannanoa Gathering. In 2008 she co-founded the Moab Folk Camp in Moab, Utah.