Conchronicity :: A Place for Key West Conchs to Gather

Artwork by Wendy Sheridan

Wendy Sheridan
Key West Daze: 1975-1983
I was 19 years old and really green when I approached Terence McGuire and asked him for an audition to play at the Bull. That was the start of discovering what music could mean for me. Terry, T-Mac, gave me a place to ‘become’. The Bull was more than a bar. [...]

Wendy Sheridan

In 1980 I left the island for about six months and went to NYC, doing solo gigs in the Village and showcases and shit. One time I had this gig in the “Other End” on Bleeker Street and lo and behold, as the people came in, one after another were from KEY WEST! Half [...]

Wendy Sheridan
Remember in 1977, when Saturday Night Live was new on the tube, and Dan Akkroyd wasn’t too famous yet? He was sitting there at the bar in The Bull, alone. I started a conversation with him during my break and he told me he loved the way I played the blues, that he played [...]

Wendy Sheridan
A girlfriend from Key West, a sexy little stripper named Chris, who was Rick Fraley’s (Pacific Orchestra-bass) wife at the time, told me this story:
She was in Chicago, working as a playboy bunny, serving a table of Hollywood bigwigs. When she said she was from Key West, they asked if she knew a certain “Wendy [...]

In 1976 Key West, few had cars but everyone had a bike. Babies were carried in quilt-lined front baskets, perhaps with another baby on the back and one in the oven. Great vegetarian feasts gathered on the island a couple of times a week.

Does anything really start off innocently enough? Maybe an idea for a new Adam Sandler movie but this was a long ago night in New York City. 1980.