Welcome to my website! With the Pandemic of 2020 hopefully coming to an end, it’s time to dust off the vocal cords ( She’s comin’ on Dusty). I was raised listening to “Big Band” music (Don’t sit under the Apple Tree) and watching the Lawrence Welk Show and dreaming of singing like Debbie Reynolds( “Away, Away Come away with me” and “Raise a Ruckus tonight” ) in “How The West Was Won”.
One of my greatest Joys is singing with accomplished Musicians in environments with good acoustics. I started singing and being in theater productions in Grade school. I was Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance in high school and even I was surprise I could hit the high notes to “Poor Wandering One”. After that I always set performance challenges for myself no matter what the venue, pure and simply because it was exciting and the more I did it the better I got. Being a Live performing Artist takes lots of work and close attention to sound, equipment, lyrics, venues, audience…not to mention pitch, performance, set lists and rehearsals.
I’m excited to expand my performance repertoire and voice to larger spaces/buildings with audiences this time! . So now it’s time to “Giddy-up and Go”….hope your day is going well and hope you enjoy my new music:)
Sharon Iltis is a singer-songwriter living in the mountains of Montana.