This is what I really look like...

If you take the girl out of Texas, can you take the Texas out of the girl? No, and that's why Sharon Montgomery continues to provide world-class entertainment from her home base in Houston.  A native Texan, Sharon is glad to come home to her roots after several years of globe-trotting performances and two years of life in the Big Apple. While in New York, she won the Backstage Bistro Female Vocalist award, performed regularly at Eighty-Eights in Greenwich Village, and recreated the role of Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for the Nederlander theater organization.

Audiences across the United States will remember Sharon as one third of the popular vocal trio Montgomery, Plant & Stritch, with whom she toured for seven years. This lighthearted trio swung its way through some of the biggest jazz festivals in America and Europe, including the JVC festivals in Nice and at Carnegie Hall, the Newport Jazz Festival, and the North Sea Festival in Den Hag, Holland. The group worked regularly at the Algonquin Hotel and Cafe Carlyle in Manhattan, the Ritz in London, the Copley Plaza in Boston, and the famous Fairmont Hotels in San Francisco, Dallas, and Chicago. Extensive tours of Italy delighted both the music-loving Italians and the pasta-loving trio. During their seven years together, Montgomery, Plant & Stritch counted among their friends and fans such luminaries as Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Connick Jr., Betty White, Rex Reed, Stephen Sondheim, Henry Mancini, Steve Allen, Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, and Hal Prince.

Home in Houston, Sharon can be found performing her solo show the first Saturday of every month at Ovations, with the incredibly talented Charlene Wright. Or look for her in front of Texas' most respected and best loved big band, the Ed Gerlach Orchestra. In addition to the occasional music festival or symphonic engagement, Sharon makes it a point to sing on a flatbed truck at least once a year, just to keep things real. So check out the Sharon Live! page for an upcoming calendar!

"One of the most versatile mega-talents on the scene today...
Sharon Montgomery has a voice from music heaven."
 - Rex Reed

"Sharon Montgomery is a fantastic party you're glad you went to... funny, brilliantly talented and full of surprises."
- Liza Minnelli

"What can I say?  Excellent, Exhilarating, Musical Bawdy, Entertaining, Side-splitting, Hit of the Convention."
- Donald Bailey, VP, Texas Choral Directors Assn

"An impeccable house guest."
-Billy Stritch