Put on your dancing shoes, bring your singing voice and join Sharon Katz & The Peace Train for a celebratory concerts and release of The Peace Train Songs & Stories Book at Joe’s Pub on Thursday, September 18 at 7 PM. The band features Katz, guitar and vocals; Wendy Quick, vocals; Richard Hill Jr., bass; Suzzette Ortiz, keyboards; Eric Roberts, drums; Jan Jeffries, percussion and David Church, saxophone, flute.
Katz, from Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth/Nelson Mandela Bay) in South Africa, is 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. The 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. Katz 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.
Tickets are $30 and available here.
Joe’s Pub is located at 425 Lafayette St., NY, NY
