Moab Folk Camp 2026 - Teachers
Susan Cattaneo
Songwriting, Repertoire
With her powerful voice, captivating melodies and finely-crafted lyrics, Susan Cattaneo is one of Boston’s most respected singer-songwriters. Combining vivid storytelling with a modern songwriter's spin, Susan’s music blends folk, rock and blues with hint of country. Susan won the CT Folk Festival and has been nominated for five Boston Music Awards including SingerSongwriter of the Year, Americana Artist of the Year, and Folk Act of Year. She has been a finalist or winner in the country’s most prestigious songwriting and music contests including being a three-time Kerrville New Folk finalist. In her 20 plus years teaching Songwriting at Berklee College of Music, Susan has helped students work on over 15,000 songs in all musical genres and styles and mentored over 2,000 artists. ~ susancattaneo.com
Songwriting, Repertoire
With her powerful voice, captivating melodies and finely-crafted lyrics, Susan Cattaneo is one of Boston’s most respected singer-songwriters. Combining vivid storytelling with a modern songwriter's spin, Susan’s music blends folk, rock and blues with hint of country. Susan won the CT Folk Festival and has been nominated for five Boston Music Awards including SingerSongwriter of the Year, Americana Artist of the Year, and Folk Act of Year. She has been a finalist or winner in the country’s most prestigious songwriting and music contests including being a three-time Kerrville New Folk finalist. In her 20 plus years teaching Songwriting at Berklee College of Music, Susan has helped students work on over 15,000 songs in all musical genres and styles and mentored over 2,000 artists. ~ susancattaneo.com
Cindy Scott
Voice, Harmony
Cindy Scott was raised in a family of musicians, her first instrument was flute, which earned her a scholarship to Louisiana State University. She went on to get an MBA and learned to speak German and Spanish along the way. During a study abroad program, she began singing in the jazz cellars of Germany with local musicians. In 2005, she left a successful business career for a musician’s life in New Orleans, where she promptly lost all her household belongings to Hurricane Katrina. She decided to stick around and has since become firmly rooted in the rich music scene of the Crescent City.
Cindy maintains an active performance schedule in New Orleans and elsewhere. She has performed in cities all over the US and Europe and in more exotic locales like Mexico, Turkey, and Kazakhstan. Her recording “Let the Devil Take Tomorrow” won OffBeat Magazine’s Best Contemporary Jazz Album award for 2010, and All About Jazz said of her, “The Devil may take tomorrow, but … Cindy Scott clearly owns today.” She is currently working on her fourth album, which will reflect more of her singer-songwriter tendencies.
Cindy is also a respected voice instructor of many styles. She has taught contemporary voice at both the University of New Orleans and Loyola University, and as of 2016, Berklee College of Music. She’s taught a myriad of professional vocalists, and was hired to coach Oscar-winning actor Octavia Spencer and actor-comedian Russell Brand. One of her former students, Jon Cleary, just won a GRAMMY™ for his recording “GoGo Juice.”
Voice, Harmony
Cindy Scott was raised in a family of musicians, her first instrument was flute, which earned her a scholarship to Louisiana State University. She went on to get an MBA and learned to speak German and Spanish along the way. During a study abroad program, she began singing in the jazz cellars of Germany with local musicians. In 2005, she left a successful business career for a musician’s life in New Orleans, where she promptly lost all her household belongings to Hurricane Katrina. She decided to stick around and has since become firmly rooted in the rich music scene of the Crescent City.
Cindy maintains an active performance schedule in New Orleans and elsewhere. She has performed in cities all over the US and Europe and in more exotic locales like Mexico, Turkey, and Kazakhstan. Her recording “Let the Devil Take Tomorrow” won OffBeat Magazine’s Best Contemporary Jazz Album award for 2010, and All About Jazz said of her, “The Devil may take tomorrow, but … Cindy Scott clearly owns today.” She is currently working on her fourth album, which will reflect more of her singer-songwriter tendencies.
Cindy is also a respected voice instructor of many styles. She has taught contemporary voice at both the University of New Orleans and Loyola University, and as of 2016, Berklee College of Music. She’s taught a myriad of professional vocalists, and was hired to coach Oscar-winning actor Octavia Spencer and actor-comedian Russell Brand. One of her former students, Jon Cleary, just won a GRAMMY™ for his recording “GoGo Juice.”
Steve Baughman
Guitar, Banjo
Steve Baughman has dedicated most of his musical life to arranging old fiddle and harp tunes for solo fingerstyle guitar. He is the author of five books on Mel Bay Publications and his most recent book, Gospel Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar, was released in 2019 by Stringletter Media.
His music has been featured many times on syndicated NPR radio shows. He has published over half a dozen books of his arrangements, and has taught at over a hundred guitar camps sessions across the United States, Canada, as well as in Europe. He is also an eager proponent of the contemplative side of claw hammer banjo playing. Steve is a resident of Asheville, North Carolina.
Guitar, Banjo
Steve Baughman has dedicated most of his musical life to arranging old fiddle and harp tunes for solo fingerstyle guitar. He is the author of five books on Mel Bay Publications and his most recent book, Gospel Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar, was released in 2019 by Stringletter Media.
His music has been featured many times on syndicated NPR radio shows. He has published over half a dozen books of his arrangements, and has taught at over a hundred guitar camps sessions across the United States, Canada, as well as in Europe. He is also an eager proponent of the contemplative side of claw hammer banjo playing. Steve is a resident of Asheville, North Carolina.
Lewis Mock
Guitar
Lewis Mock is a multiple award winning songwriter. He has performed on award-winning national television commercials and movie soundtracks. His licks have been published in Guitar Player Magazine. For ten years he was a Professor at the Colorado Springs Conservatory teaching guitar and musicianship, and is a regular instructor at the Colorado Roots Music Camps.
Lewis began performing professionally at eight years of age. In 1990 he became the house guitarist at the Broadmoor International Hotel and Resort in Colorado Springs, where for almost twenty-seven years, he performed nightly. He has opened for many internationally known artists, and has performed with award-winning artists: Melissa Manchester, Maureen McGovern, Suzy Bogguss, Debbie Boone, and the John Denver Band. He is a 2018 inductee into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame.
Guitar
Lewis Mock is a multiple award winning songwriter. He has performed on award-winning national television commercials and movie soundtracks. His licks have been published in Guitar Player Magazine. For ten years he was a Professor at the Colorado Springs Conservatory teaching guitar and musicianship, and is a regular instructor at the Colorado Roots Music Camps.
Lewis began performing professionally at eight years of age. In 1990 he became the house guitarist at the Broadmoor International Hotel and Resort in Colorado Springs, where for almost twenty-seven years, he performed nightly. He has opened for many internationally known artists, and has performed with award-winning artists: Melissa Manchester, Maureen McGovern, Suzy Bogguss, Debbie Boone, and the John Denver Band. He is a 2018 inductee into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame.
Cosy Sheridan
Songwriting
Cosy Sheridan has been called one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters. She first appeared on the national folk scene when she won the songwriting contests at The Kerrville Folk Festival and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 1992 and released her critically acclaimed CD Quietly Led. The Albuquerque Journal called her “a buddhist monk trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter.” Backed by the strong rhythms and harmonies of her bass player Charlie Koch, she plays a percussive bluesy style of guitar—often in open tunings and occasionally with two or more capos on the guitar. “You can't make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you're doing, and do it well,” wrote The Chicago Examiner. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and on the Jerry Lewis Telethon. She was a voice student at Berklee College of Music and a guitar student of legendary finger style players Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg. She teaches classes in songwriting, performance, and guitar at workshops and adult music camps across the country. She is the director of Moab Folk Camp in Moab, Utah. ~ cosysheridan.com
Songwriting
Cosy Sheridan has been called one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters. She first appeared on the national folk scene when she won the songwriting contests at The Kerrville Folk Festival and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 1992 and released her critically acclaimed CD Quietly Led. The Albuquerque Journal called her “a buddhist monk trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter.” Backed by the strong rhythms and harmonies of her bass player Charlie Koch, she plays a percussive bluesy style of guitar—often in open tunings and occasionally with two or more capos on the guitar. “You can't make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you're doing, and do it well,” wrote The Chicago Examiner. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and on the Jerry Lewis Telethon. She was a voice student at Berklee College of Music and a guitar student of legendary finger style players Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg. She teaches classes in songwriting, performance, and guitar at workshops and adult music camps across the country. She is the director of Moab Folk Camp in Moab, Utah. ~ cosysheridan.com
Eric Jones
Mandolin
Eric Jones is a student of early Americana music. His sound reflects a fondness for dressing-up traditional songs in new musical styles. He was a founding member of the Irish-American band Keltika, and the western slope string band Big Timbre. In addition to his solo work, he can be heard playing mandolin with the alt-bluegrass band Quicksand Soup and the folk-rock Rogue Assets. Eric has been hosting jams and teaching mandolin at the Moab Folk Camp since its first year.
Mandolin
Eric Jones is a student of early Americana music. His sound reflects a fondness for dressing-up traditional songs in new musical styles. He was a founding member of the Irish-American band Keltika, and the western slope string band Big Timbre. In addition to his solo work, he can be heard playing mandolin with the alt-bluegrass band Quicksand Soup and the folk-rock Rogue Assets. Eric has been hosting jams and teaching mandolin at the Moab Folk Camp since its first year.
Mandy Danzig
Ukulele, Guitar
Mandy plays almost anything with strings, and during her shows, she flows effortlessly from one instrument to another, weaving in and out of songs with her effervescent storytelling. Shows are rollicking romps through traditional and original music filled with joy, and an invitation for everyone to join the choir and sing along. As a teacher she is dedicated to the idea that the act of making music belongs in everyone’s life regardless of skill. Classes are a joyous supportive between student and teacher in pursuit of that goal. Mandy (She/Her/Hers) used to perform and teach under a different name and pronouns but she changed her name when she came out as transgender in December of 2019. A member of the duo Otter Creek, her song “The Fiddle Preacher” reached the top 10 on the Folk DJ charts. She has performed with the Salt Lake Choral Artists, the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society, and the Utopia Early Music Ensemble in state premiers and programs that blend both classical and folk traditions. In collaboration with Wendy Lowder, her arrangement and performance was on TLC's Sister Wives. She is on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as MandyLynnDanzig and can be found online at ~ MandyLynnDanzig.com.
Ukulele, Guitar
Mandy plays almost anything with strings, and during her shows, she flows effortlessly from one instrument to another, weaving in and out of songs with her effervescent storytelling. Shows are rollicking romps through traditional and original music filled with joy, and an invitation for everyone to join the choir and sing along. As a teacher she is dedicated to the idea that the act of making music belongs in everyone’s life regardless of skill. Classes are a joyous supportive between student and teacher in pursuit of that goal. Mandy (She/Her/Hers) used to perform and teach under a different name and pronouns but she changed her name when she came out as transgender in December of 2019. A member of the duo Otter Creek, her song “The Fiddle Preacher” reached the top 10 on the Folk DJ charts. She has performed with the Salt Lake Choral Artists, the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society, and the Utopia Early Music Ensemble in state premiers and programs that blend both classical and folk traditions. In collaboration with Wendy Lowder, her arrangement and performance was on TLC's Sister Wives. She is on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as MandyLynnDanzig and can be found online at ~ MandyLynnDanzig.com.
Anke Summerhill
Beginning Guitar
Anke has been with the Moab Folk Camp since its beginnings and is an invaluable member of our staff. In recent years, she has worked with people of all ages in her community and beyond and is continually inspired by the healing power of music. She especially enjoys exploring songwriting and the creativity of playing the guitar with others as a way to weave community. Originally from Munich, Germany, Vancouver, British Columbia; and now surrounded by Utah's desert beauty, Anke’s diverse background and powerful gift of observation has seasoned her songwriting and performances with qualities which show genuine compassion. In addition to recording her own well received full-length CD projects, The Roots Run Deep and Shine On Through, her songs have found their way onto many CD compilations and samplers used in a wide variety of community fundraising projects. She recently recorded Utah Phillips' song, "Miner’s Lullaby" for the 2010 tribute project, The Long Memory ~ Utah remembers Bruce "Utah" Phillips, and she loved singing harmonies on Hal Cannon's debut solo recording. ~ AnkeSummerhill.com
Beginning Guitar
Anke has been with the Moab Folk Camp since its beginnings and is an invaluable member of our staff. In recent years, she has worked with people of all ages in her community and beyond and is continually inspired by the healing power of music. She especially enjoys exploring songwriting and the creativity of playing the guitar with others as a way to weave community. Originally from Munich, Germany, Vancouver, British Columbia; and now surrounded by Utah's desert beauty, Anke’s diverse background and powerful gift of observation has seasoned her songwriting and performances with qualities which show genuine compassion. In addition to recording her own well received full-length CD projects, The Roots Run Deep and Shine On Through, her songs have found their way onto many CD compilations and samplers used in a wide variety of community fundraising projects. She recently recorded Utah Phillips' song, "Miner’s Lullaby" for the 2010 tribute project, The Long Memory ~ Utah remembers Bruce "Utah" Phillips, and she loved singing harmonies on Hal Cannon's debut solo recording. ~ AnkeSummerhill.com
Charlie Koch
Bass
Charlie Koch has trained horses, sailed across the Atlantic more than once, and fronted an R&B band. He skippered a race boat for Buckminster Fuller. He whipped in for a fox hunt in Ireland and saddle-broke young horses on a breeding farm in France. He taught tennis, skiing, and horseback riding. He trained as a body-oriented psychotherapist. These days, he tours playing bass for his wife, singer/songwriter Cosy Sheridan. In his first CD, Help Me To Believe, Charlie sings of his father, who was also a sailor, and of his longing for a place to call home. His love songs are heartfelt. His melodies are influenced by such diverse writers as Otis Redding, Ray Charles, and James Taylor. His guitar playing has roots in soulful country blues.
Bass
Charlie Koch has trained horses, sailed across the Atlantic more than once, and fronted an R&B band. He skippered a race boat for Buckminster Fuller. He whipped in for a fox hunt in Ireland and saddle-broke young horses on a breeding farm in France. He taught tennis, skiing, and horseback riding. He trained as a body-oriented psychotherapist. These days, he tours playing bass for his wife, singer/songwriter Cosy Sheridan. In his first CD, Help Me To Believe, Charlie sings of his father, who was also a sailor, and of his longing for a place to call home. His love songs are heartfelt. His melodies are influenced by such diverse writers as Otis Redding, Ray Charles, and James Taylor. His guitar playing has roots in soulful country blues.
Deb Cox
Guitar
A midwife by profession, Deb didn’t start teaching guitar until late in life. Most of her own musical learning was after 45. This makes her a patient and understanding teacher of adult learners. Deb has been teaching swing jazz classes for the past seven years at various camps. She performs a bit in restaurants and in elder care facilities in her hometown of Oakland, CA.
Guitar
A midwife by profession, Deb didn’t start teaching guitar until late in life. Most of her own musical learning was after 45. This makes her a patient and understanding teacher of adult learners. Deb has been teaching swing jazz classes for the past seven years at various camps. She performs a bit in restaurants and in elder care facilities in her hometown of Oakland, CA.
Chad Niehaus
Outdoor Art
Chad is an award-winning artist based in Moab, Utah. He creates acrylic paintings, pastel drawings, and linocut prints inspired by the open spaces of the Colorado Plateau. His work has been featured in A Century of Sanctuary: The Art of Zion National Park, Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts, and on NPR's Radio West.
Outdoor Art
Chad is an award-winning artist based in Moab, Utah. He creates acrylic paintings, pastel drawings, and linocut prints inspired by the open spaces of the Colorado Plateau. His work has been featured in A Century of Sanctuary: The Art of Zion National Park, Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts, and on NPR's Radio West.