Sheila Fox, a vocalist and clarinetist, has performed professionally for over 20 years. Her repertoire covers a wide range of music including Jewish, Jazz, Latin & Pop. Sheila is the vocalist for the Kosher Red Hots, a quartet performing Yiddish theater and folk songs, Klezmer, Ladino, Swing, Jazz and Latin. She has toured in Russia, New York, California, and the Northwest and has recorded 2 CDs. Sheila has studied Yiddish and klezmer music for over 12 years. In the summer of 2000, she received a full scholarship and attended the Yiddish program at Columbia University. She continued learning Yiddish while residing in the Bronx. She has worked with NW Folklife in the Schools and creates presentations for preschools through college. In 2004, Sheila received an Artist Support grant from the Jack Straw Foundation where her recording project for the senior Yiddish and Ladino population is being made. Sheila's work in the elderly community includes performances at nursing and retirement homes and visits and interviews with native Yiddish and Ladino speakers. Sheila is the choral director for Seattle's Secular Jewish Circle chorus. She is also a licensed massage therapist and therapeutic singer and has a successful practice in Seattle. She works with people with Alzheimer's, dementia and degenerative diseases combining music and massage.
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She has appeared in a variety of Seattle-area performance venues, including Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle Public Theater, The Washington Historical Museum, The Fringe Festival, The Rebar, The Pink Door Restaurant and Lounge, The Fremont Festival, Crossroads Mall and many others.
Sheila's degree in Arts Administration helps her to be an effective and savvy artist. She is the creator and producer of several Yiddish cabaret shows presented at Seattle's Fringe Festival and other local venues. She wrote and performed her one-woman show, "The Life and Times of Molly Picon," in New York and Seattle. Sheila has had the pleasure of working with a number of great musicians, including pianist and musical director Zalmen Mlotek of New York's Folksbienne Yiddish Theater, Latin Grammy Nominee Jovino Santos Neto, and New York Yiddish vocalist Adrienne Cooper. Sheila has studied with Seattle's jazz vocalists Greta Matassa and Jay Clayton.
Sheila's event production experience includes work with Alice B. Theater, San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Northwest International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, Harriet Tubman Underground Railway, Rhiannon and others.