Art in the House

Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February, 2002

Byline: KIMBER WILLIAMS The Register-Guard

FOLK SINGER Cosy Sheridan paused between songs to scan the crowded venue - about 25 fans squeezed shoulder to shoulder among a hodgepodge of kitchen chairs lining the living room of Janna Latham's south Eugene duplex.

There was little between the artist and her audience. No stage. No theatrical lighting, spare the two inexpensive, clip-on numbers dangling from Latham's low ceiling. Not even a microphone.

In fact, only about 18 inches of wall-to-wall carpeting separated Sheridan, her musical partner TR Ritchie and their metal, folding chairs from the nearest front-row fan - ...