Sharon Katz and the Peace Train
This is Sharon’s second time performing at the Salon. She performed solo at the inaugurual salon in 2025. Sharon has been living and performing in Mexico where she and two musicians formed a group with experimental Afro-Mexican Fusion sounds.
South African musician, music therapist and humanitarian Sharon Katz began her anti-Apartheid work as a teenager. Soon after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Sharon formed the country’s first, 500-member multicultural choir and band known as The Peace Train. After Mandela’s presidential victory, Sharon Katz & The Peace Train became the country’s first musical ambassadors of the new democracy with tours across Africa, USA, Canada, Middle East, Mexico, and Cuba.
Sharon has performed with The Peace Train band throughout North America and used her music to promote humanitarian causes worldwide. She has performed with philharmonic orchestras, community choirs and disenfranchised youth around the world. Proceeds from her concerts and merchandise sales have gone toward building a school, supporting an orphanage, and providing meals and after-school mentorship in South Africa. Sharon has been working in the border region between Mexico and California with migrant children, girls rescued from trafficking, and survivors of torture.
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