The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, a live concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street. 

Tickets are $10. Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm. Seating is limited, so please register in advance. All proceeds from this concert series directly support efforts of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Chanteuse will be livestreamed at wwoz.org/livevideo.

About Sharon Martin:

New Orleans soulful R&B, blues and jazz singer Sharon Martin is one of the treasures of the Crescent City. She has been singing professionally since the mid-1980s and has established herself as one of our favorites with a range of styles and emotions that she conveys with ease. Soulful, powerful and joyful one moment, delicate and subdued the next – Sharon draws her audience in with her warm personality. Sharon has performed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival for many years and has worked with a “who’s who” of major artists, from Joe Sample and Benny Carter to New Orleans legends Dave Bartholomew and Wilson “Willie T” Turbinton, Walter Payton, Carl LeBlanc and John and Wendell Brunious, and so many other greats locally. Martin has toured from Mexico, to Brazil, to Germany, France, and Tbilisi, Georgia in Europe to Taiwan and to many prefectures north to south on the island of Japan. In 2012, with a reprisal in 2017, she earned rave reviews starring as the late, great Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" at New Orleans’ Juju Bag Café and at The Pontchartrain Landing respectively, where she garnered a nomination as “best actress” in a musical by the Big Easy Awards. She continues to perform regularly at night clubs and special events around the City. Her film credits include “The Club singer in T. D. Jakes’ “Woman Thou Art Loose” and in the 2019 Netflix release of “The Last Laugh” with Richard Dreyfus and Chevy Chase as “The Singer”’ and as herself with her band, “First Take”, in the HBO production, “Treme” (“I Thought I Saw Buddy Bolden”). Sharon. a giver, participates in community events, offering her time and talent. She was honored in 2022 with an Artie Award by the New Orleans Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for her contributions to the culture of New Orleans.