and get ready for a New Song Book!
Put on your Dancing
Shoes, bring your singing voice & join Sharon Katz & the Peace Train Coast
to Coast celebratory concerts and release of The Peace Train Songs &
Stories Book!
Thursday Sept. 18th - New York
City
Joe's at The Public Theater (Joe's Pub)
425 Lafayette St.,
NY, NY 10003
https://publictheater.org/performances-jp/2025/s/sharon-katz-the-peace-train/
and
Saturday Sept. 20th – Philadelphia
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut St.,
Phila., PA 19104
Special Guests:
Anna Crusis Feminist Choir
https://worldcafelive.org/event/sharon-katz-the-peace-train/
also
Saturday &
Sunday Sept. 28th -29th
South African Food, Wine
& Music Festival at Grayhaven Winery, 4675 W. Grey Fox Cir, Gum Spring, VA
https://southafricanwinefestival.com/
For more information and tickets: SharonKatz.com
The Peace Train band features Sharon on guitar and vocals, Wendy Quick (vocals); Richard Hill Jr. (bass), Suzzette Ortiz (keyboards); Eric Roberts (Drums); Jan Jeffries (Percussion) and David Church (sax & flute).
World renowned for leading South Africa’s first 500-voice multiracial and multicultural performing
group to help promote Nelson Mandela’s election in
Post-Apartheid South Africa, Sharon Katz is a guitarist,
singer and composer from Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth/ Nelson Mandela Bay)
in South Africa. A multiple award-winning film, When Voices Meet was
made about Katz’s social activism.
In recent years, she has
facilitated musical projects with children living on the USA Mexico border, who
survived torture and trafficking rings in San Diego and Tijuana. Sharon has
conceived and directed productions with orchestras, and choirs in South
Africa, the United States, Cuba and Mexico and has many albums to her credit
including the most recent “We Can Be The Change” and “For You.”
This year she’ll be
publishing a multi-media songbook, “Songs and Stories of Sharon Katz &
The Peace Train” featuring ten of the Sharon’s songs along with choral
parts, guitar chords, and archival photographs of The Peace Train project. The
book also features QR codes and links to videos and recordings of the songs.
Look for the book’s physical and digital release on all platforms on September
18th.
Songs from the new Songbook
will be performed at the upcoming concerts, as well as songs from other albums
that have been on the Grammy ballot. She will
include favorite covers from South African
superstars, most notably Miriam Makeba.
Sharon has worked with
Ms. Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Pete Seeger, and is
featured on the “Carnival!” album with Sting, Madonna and Elton John. In
2019 she received the Phil Ochs Award in recognition of her music and activism.
In addition to the
September concerts on the East Coast, this October, the San Diego based
Classics4Kids will present 7 concerts featuring Sharon Katz performing with the
Classics4Kids Philharmonic Orchestra. Several of the songs in “Songs and
Stories of Sharon Katz & The Peace Train” will be on the program that will
reach thousands of San Diego school students.
