Sharon Katz is the co-founder of Sharon Katz & The Peace Train, a music group and organization created to counter apartheid in her home country of South Africa in the early 1990s. The group's latest album will be celebrated in concert on Oct. 21 at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad.
Sharon Katz taught herself to play the guitar when she was 11 and went on to use music as a tool for good — first in her native South Africa, and later around the world. “I was attracted to the ‘protest music’ of the ‘60s, as well as the African music I heard on the radio. I formed bands with my friends in my hometown, and I was always the band leader, arranging the songs and the harmony parts for others to sing.
The formal education in music therapy I received reinforced what I had already experienced, and it also gave me some additional techniques to use. The internship I did in the Philadelphia prisons prepared me for working with the most challenging groups I would work with in the future. That was where I realized that victims can become perpetrators of violence, and that I could convert gang members to band members.
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