Cheryl Anne Easton

Cheryl Anne Easton is a native of Dumfries and has been singing in and around the Dumfries and Galloway region for many years appearing with local groups such as The Dumfries Musical and Operatic Society, The Dumfries Guild of Players, The Dalgarno Singers, The UADS Choir, The Gallovidians Fiddle Orchestra and, more recently, the Dolce Divas. She is a particularly familiar figure in the town of Moffat where she is a regular member of the Sounds Scottish Summer Show at the town’s Old Well Theatre and has sung on several occasions as soloist with the Upper Annandale Dramatic Society Choir. Her range of musical styles includes Musical Theatre, Traditional Scots Songs, English Song, German Lieder, Oratorio, Operetta and Opera. Cheryl trained locally with Robert Lind before taking up a full time music studies course at Napier University where her singing teacher was Andrew Doig. During her time at Napier she sang in The Reid Hallwith the Napier Chamber Orchestra and performed in a recital for The Edinburgh Society of Musicians. She has performed solo roles in opera workshops with Opera 80 (Now English Touring Opera) and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and created a role in the world premičre of Las Escondidas at the Old Fruit Market in Glasgow. Under the banner “Songlines – Songs for Special Occasions” Cheryl performs at weddings and has sung at ceremonies throughout Great Britain. As a singer of Burns’s songs she has entertained at countless Burn’s Society functions, including a concert for the Robert Burns Society of Annapolis in Maryland USA, where she guested for the Gallovidians Fiddle Orchestra. Her most recent contribution to international friendship links was to sing in St Michael’s Church, Dumfries for a delegation of dignitaries from Norway when she sang in Norwegian. Cheryl continues to be in demand for weddings, concerts, recitals and oratorio works but is delighted to have been able to take the “time out” to record this album which she hopes you will enjoy.