Sadly, like many touring artists, Maria Cherwick and I cancelled our upcoming Home Routes tour of Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. It’s rescheduled for next year and in the meantime, here’s a clip of Flower Hill (Maria and I, joined by Andrea Monro) during a soundcheck in Tilting on Fogo Island two weeks ago. At least we got off the island once this month! Thanks to Paddy Barry for...
Read MoreOn Easter Sunday I hop on a flight to Ontario to go rehearse with a great pal and amazing musician, Alison Corbett. I’ll be playing almost half of my shows with Al on this tour and I’m super excited! I’ll kick it off with a solo performance in Cobourg on April 23. See ya there xo
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Sherry’s highly anticipated fourth album, Wreckhouse, takes its name from the song ‘Stop The Trains’; a gem of a tune written by Sherry and her father. Couple 10 heartfelt songs, with rich vocals, and phenomenal live off the floor performances from her band, and you have Sherry Ryan’s best work yet. Listen or buy here: Spotify iTunes Bandcamp ...
Read MoreRead Eric Thom’s review at Blurt Online
Read MoreThe Overcast’s Best Of Newfoundland & Labrador 2018 People’s Choice Awards gives Stop the Trains a win and my band was voted runner up for best Folk/Country Band! Read the story of Stop the Trains and Lauchie MacDougall in The Overcast
Read MoreThank you to the amazing Gerry Rogers -NDP MHA for the District of St. John’s Centre and NLNDP Leadership Candidate 2018 -for honouring me, my Dad and my music at the House of Assembly. Thanks to Mom and Bernadette for sharing this wonderful acknowledgement with me! Watch Gerry’s member’s statement here
Read MoreCongratulations to all Music NL award winners. We had a great time in Twillingate and I’m pleased to come home with Music NL Female Artis of the Year Award. A special shout out to Maria Cherwick (Kubasonics, Flower Hill, Old Contemporaries) on her Side Musician of the Year Award, the first female to win in this category.
Read MoreI’ve been nominated for Music NL 2018 Female and Country Artist of the year! Looking forward to a great music conference and awards celebration in Twillingate Oct 10-14th. Thanks Music NL for helping make Wreckhouse and all your continued support.
Read MoreAt the southern end of the Long Range Mountains in Newfoundland, there is a stretch of land where hurricane force winds known as ‘Wreckhouse winds’ occasionally blow to gusts of 200 km per hour. Award-winning Newfoundland folk/country singer Sherry Ryan takes the title of her latest album, Wreckhouse, from this area of the island notorious for blowing trains right off their tracks. Go to Roots...
Read More“Natural Law” comes galloping out of the gate to open the new Sherry Ryan CD, “Wreckhouse”. In fact there’s a rockin’ 60’s vibe driving the engine that gives spark to this new collection of songs. As a lyricist, Sherry is a straight-shooter, nothing dolled up in symbolism or poetic ramblings. She assesses lessons learned and simplifies her realizations and synopsis in measured words; the mark of...
Read MoreSeven years removed from her third studio album Sister of Mine, Sherry Ryan has evolved personally and professionally. Maturing as both a singer and songwriter, Ryan’s fourth studio album Wreckhouse is a deeply personal, yet addictively fun collection of 10 tracks brimming with soul and personality. Go to NL Herald Website Inspirational Album Growing up in a household filled with country and...
Read MoreNewfoundland’s Sherry Ryan kicks off a tour tonight to launch her latest album, called Wreckhouse. The singer-songwriter is a deceptively strong lyricist, her songs uncluttered and spare, and she doesn’t throw around complexities and verbiage. But the imagery is powerful and the metaphors large. In Cool And Clear, she compares a relationship that has ended to the difference between...
Read MoreFilmed by Tom Cochrane in my home town #LBMCOC
Read MoreIt’s been 6 years since her last album, Sister of Mine and a lot can happen in the span of 6 years: births, deaths, marriages, divorce, etc. Wreckhouse is Sherry Ryan’s 4th album, and like each previous release, the songs on Wreckhouse are a soundtrack for all of life’s twists and turns, heartaches and hurrahs. Through it all, Ryan’s warm voice blankets you with comfort, even if you want to...
Read MorePresented by East Coast Music Hour. Live from the Delta hotel in St. John’s featuring Janet Cull with Steve Miller, Sherry Ryan with Karen Bulmer and Geraldine Hollett with Andrew Dale and Katie Baggs
Read MoreVideo by Tom Cochrane, filmed at Rocket Bakery in St. John’s, NL
Read MoreHere’s a music video for Burn My Journal from my third album Sister of Mine, directed by the very talented Riley Harnett for the 2017 Nickel Independent Film Festival/MusicNL music video challenge
Read MoreHere’s a video I made with Flower Hill and the railway pensioners down at the Railway Museum here in St. John’s this past summer. My father, Jim Ryan, helped me write the song and make the video. He loved to tell stories about working on the railway and I always loved this one about Lauchie MacDougall and the Wreckhosue winds.
Read MoreGoing to hit the road in April! I’m excited to see old friends, perform with some of my favourite songwriters including Laura Merrimen in Halifax and Old Man Luedecke in Wakefield Quebec and I’m thrilled to have my bluegrass bandmate Andrea Monro join me for shows in Ontario. Check out the Shows page for details
Read MoreCome join us for the 6th Annual Love Hurts celebration of awesome love songs. Saturday February 13, 9:30 at the Ship Pub. We have a special Hurtin’ Love set by Joanna Barker and Len O’Neil to start the night!
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