Cheryl Wheeler Plays White Gull Concert Series

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Cheryl Wheeler will be featured in concert at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on March 25. Tickets for the 8 pm concert, the fourth in a series of six scheduled at the inn this winter, are $20.

Poet-Cheryl writes achingly honest songs of love and loss. Contrasting the prosaic landscapes of her native small-town America with the hopelessly rootless life of the traveling performer, she touches the common chords with any who feel the tug between our busy, noisome times and the timeless longing for simplicity and silence. Her deceptively plain-spun songs have been hits for such mainstream stars as Suzy Bogguss (Aces) and Dan Seals (Addicted), and have been recorded by everyone from Bette Midler, Maura O’Connell, Peter Paul and Mary, Juice Newton, and Garth Brooks. Wheeler was born in the small town of Timonium, Maryland. The wistful rural vistas she glimpses so poignantly through her fleeting windshield really do represent the deep pull of place she feels in her wandering life. Where others seek the startling image, Wheeler wraps her songs around the familiar image, the shared event.

An optional pre-concert fixed price dinner will be served at 6 pm, featuring Guinness braised short ribs, horse radish scented mashed potatoes, braised cabbage, green salad with roasted beets, chevre, walnuts and red wine vinaigrette, and carrot cake for dessert. The cost of the dinner is $20.95. Tickets for the concert, reservations for the dinner and information can be obtained by calling the White Gull at 920.868.3517.