Meet… Ray Sheehan
Ray Sheehan is an 18-year old singer-songwriter building an impressive body of work. He’s been at it for three years, having performed at The Stone Pony and House Of Independents in his Asbury Park hometown plus Dingbatz in Clifton. His current single is “Don’t Play Can’t Eat.” When asked about it, Sheehan tells The Jersey Sound that it’s “centered around refusing to make yourself small for people who would rather you stay that way, and choosing to walk away from the versions of your life that ask you to disappear.”
His Midnight Players band stick to him like a second skin. When they gig, they play songs from his 2025 Turning Point debut, recorded at Freakshop Studios in Keyport, and produced by metal drummer Bob Pantella (The Obsessed, Monster Magnet, Atomic Bitchwax) from Middletown. Originally from Neptune, he moved to New Egypt listening to his Bruce and Southside records. The band delves into blues-rock, classic rock and always brings the house down with the 1976 Juke anthem “I Don’t Want To Go Home.” Sheehan plans to tour New York and Pennsylvania with a few choice Dylan and Bruce covers and “will have doors blown off of their venues as people dance and sing their hearts out,” he says, adding, “nothing is off-limits nor too far.”
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