MUSIC

Phil & Derek's Restaurant & Wine Bar presents Sharon Montgomery. (With Bobby Henschen or Jerry Atwood).

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.

Find out more about this amazing artist at www.sharonmontgomery.com.