promotional campaign to donate money to the Brady Campaign each time the song was played on Adult Album Alternative radio stations. In 2014, Wheeler was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. Performances Wheeler has toured extensively throughout her career, and her live concerts include both comedic and serious commentary in addition to the songs themselves. As one reviewer wrote, she “masterfully blends blisteringly on-target observational humor, simple storytelling, gorgeous guitar work, and beautiful, rich songs.” Another commented on her “free-wheeling live concerts” and called Wheeler a “thoughtful, amusing musician and storyteller (and irrepressible social critic)…. [H]er patter is a delicious, folk-flavored blend of Phyllis Diller and Mort Sahl, sometimes puckish, sometimes barbed.” About half of the songs Wheeler performs in concert are not available on any of her albums. Many never get recorded and eventually fade from her set list. Although she mostly tours alone, she has also toured with Kenny White (who produced a number of her albums). White generally opens for her and then plays and sings harmony during Wheeler's set. Wheeler has also toured with the Christine Lavin-inspired tour "On a Winter's Night" and occasionally as part of Lavin's consortium Four Bitchin' Babes. Wheeler participated in a concert with fellow folk singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1988, the year before Colvin released her debut album. The three performed on two consecutive nights, to critical acclaim, at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. The two performances were recorded at the soundboard and although never released officially, have been favorites among fans of the three artists. Personal life Wheeler is openly lesbian. She and her wife, Cathleen, live in Swansea, Massachusetts. They were married in 2004, ten days after Massachusetts made same-sex marriage legal. In October 2022, her management announced that her forthcoming concerts were cancelled due to hospitalization for mental health challenges. Discography Most of the following albums are still in print: Studio albums Cheryl Wheeler (1985) Half a Book (1987) Circles and Arrows (1990) Driving Home (1993) Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar (1995) Sylvia Hotel (1999) Defying Gravity (2005) Pointing at the Sun (2009) Greetings: Cheryl Wheeler Live (feat. Kenny White) (2012) EPs Newport Songs (1983) Live and Otherwise (1987) Compilation albums Different Stripe (2000) No Previous Record (2003) Other contributionsLive at the World Café - Volume 9'' (1999) – "If It Were Up to Me" References External links Official website Cheryl Wheeler guitar