Music
Charted on Folk and Americana Radio Charts 2006/2007
KRCL Founder's Title Festival Songwriting Finalist
San Juan National Forest Artist in Residence
Avalon Festival Songwriting Finalist
Silverton Jubilee Songwriting Finalist
Southpark Music Festival Winner Showcase
KRCL Founder's Title Festival Songwriting Finalist
San Juan National Forest Artist in Residence
Avalon Festival Songwriting Finalist
Silverton Jubilee Songwriting Finalist
Southpark Music Festival Winner Showcase
Sally toured nationally for 6 years, sometimes solo and sometimes with mandolin accompaniment, playing well known concert series, festivals, and house concerts. Her music received glowing reviews, a wide base of support, and radio features around the country.
Musical Style
The songs of folk/roots songwriter, Sally Shuffield, take the listener on a journey through the west of the 1800s, small town America, the emotions of love and loss, motherhood, and the search for meaning and redemption in every day life. Sally’s performance consists of her original songs, intertwined with stories of the cultures of different regions. Growing up in Arkansas, she experienced her grandparents’ rural roots and their connection to the land. Many of her songs are about this region, and the stories she tells to accompany her songs are filled with Arkansas personalities and characters from the Depression days to the Baptist Bible town where she was raised. Her songs also tell the story of a modern day migrant to the west, rambling through western mining towns, the canyons of Utah, and the mountains of Colorado, trying to discover a new identity like so many other people who have left their roots to fall in love with the freedom of the West.
Sally's third CD, "Something in the Water," released in 2006, follows the rootsy style of her earlier CDs, but also experiments with a couple of non-acoustic numbers, as well as a tune that is strictly bluegrass. Her themes include profound insights into history, including the Mountain Meadow Massacre, the Civil War, and the taming of the west, in addition to songs that address the universal yearnings and ramblings of humanity. Like her earlier CDs, “Something in the Water,” attracted some of Colorado’s best musicians, including Greg Schochet, Sally VanMeter, Pete Wernick, members of Uncle Earl and many others.
See what people have said about Sally's music.
Discology
Something in the Water, 2006
Ties That Bind, 2001
Backroads of My Mind, 1999
Compilations
-City of Durango CD Compilation, “Rhythms of Durango,” along with Badly Bent, Wildblooms, the Hot Strings, and others (2006)
-Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance CD Compilation, “Slickrock and Sagebrush,”
along with Cosy Sheridan, Anka Summerhill, Terry Tempest Williams, and others (2000)
Singles
-“Alaska Skies,” Song that pays tribute the the Arctic Refuge and the Porcupine Caribou Herd. Written to support the Alaska Wilderness League (2004)
Musical Style
The songs of folk/roots songwriter, Sally Shuffield, take the listener on a journey through the west of the 1800s, small town America, the emotions of love and loss, motherhood, and the search for meaning and redemption in every day life. Sally’s performance consists of her original songs, intertwined with stories of the cultures of different regions. Growing up in Arkansas, she experienced her grandparents’ rural roots and their connection to the land. Many of her songs are about this region, and the stories she tells to accompany her songs are filled with Arkansas personalities and characters from the Depression days to the Baptist Bible town where she was raised. Her songs also tell the story of a modern day migrant to the west, rambling through western mining towns, the canyons of Utah, and the mountains of Colorado, trying to discover a new identity like so many other people who have left their roots to fall in love with the freedom of the West.
Sally's third CD, "Something in the Water," released in 2006, follows the rootsy style of her earlier CDs, but also experiments with a couple of non-acoustic numbers, as well as a tune that is strictly bluegrass. Her themes include profound insights into history, including the Mountain Meadow Massacre, the Civil War, and the taming of the west, in addition to songs that address the universal yearnings and ramblings of humanity. Like her earlier CDs, “Something in the Water,” attracted some of Colorado’s best musicians, including Greg Schochet, Sally VanMeter, Pete Wernick, members of Uncle Earl and many others.
See what people have said about Sally's music.
Discology
Something in the Water, 2006
Ties That Bind, 2001
Backroads of My Mind, 1999
Compilations
-City of Durango CD Compilation, “Rhythms of Durango,” along with Badly Bent, Wildblooms, the Hot Strings, and others (2006)
-Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance CD Compilation, “Slickrock and Sagebrush,”
along with Cosy Sheridan, Anka Summerhill, Terry Tempest Williams, and others (2000)
Singles
-“Alaska Skies,” Song that pays tribute the the Arctic Refuge and the Porcupine Caribou Herd. Written to support the Alaska Wilderness League (2004)