Welcome to my 3rd website! With the Pandemic of 2020 going on and turning 65 I’ve had plenty of time to come to grips with my Singing Pursuits. And of course I had to reach back into my younger years to focus in on Why do I work so hard on singing?. Well, I’m going to stop asking myself that question because it is just what I do and my spirit loves to sing. I was raised listening to “Big Band” music, watching the Lawrance Welk Show and dreaming of singing like Debbie Reynolds 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 get up on the Stage of Historic Theaters and put all my years of work into “The Sharon Iltis Show”. So now it’s time to “Giddy-up and Go”….hope your day is going well and hope you enjoy my new website.
Sharon Iltis is a singer-songwriter living in the mountains of Montana.