Sheryl Bailey is an acclaimed guitarist who has been called a "rising star" by DownBeat Magazine. She has toured the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and the UK with her many projects: The Sheryl Bailey 3, The Sheryl Bailey 4, The Electric Ladyland Project, and Plucky Strum. She also has released 12 critically-acclaimed albums as a leader.

Bailey has toured and recorded artists with The Anat Cohen Tentet, Richard Bona, David Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove, and many others. She has also been a Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music since 2000, and was recently named the Assistant Chair of the Guitar Department there.