Linda Sharar

has been present in the US singer/songwriter circuit for over 25 years.  With three independently released CDs produced by Tom Dube (Richard Thompson, Julianna Hatfield), she has performed on stages of the top folk venues on the east coast, including Club Passim in Cambridge MA, the Iron Horse in Northampton MA, Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem PA, and the Bottom Line in New York City.   She has also has appeared on stage, solo or in collaboration with her sisters (The Sharar Sisters), Camp Hoboken or the RESPOND collective, at well known festivals including the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale NY and the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville TX.

In recent years Linda appears primarily with the Sharar Sisters at venues and festivals in the NY/NJ/CT tri-state region.  Additional pop-up gigs by the Sharar Sisters have included the New Moon Coffeehouse opening for John Gorka and house concerts like Coyote Ridge in West Milford NJ. 

Linda uses her creative gifts as a songwriter/performer to fund-raise for charities and special causes, and was instrumental in the success of the RESPOND Compilation, which raised over $150,000 for the RESPOND shelter in Somerville MA, and was hailed as the "Top album of 1999" by Billboard Magazine.

Accolades:
Kerrville Folk Festival - Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Finalist 2008
Great American Music Awards - honorable mention for "Any Kind of Love"
We Are Listening Singer Songwriter Awards - honorable mention for "A Little Will Do"
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Quotes:
"Everyday' shows a vulnerability in Linda’s voice reminiscent of the shy and hungry New York folksinger she was fifteen years ago, but now with the confidence that comes from all the positives she’s layered on her life—sister, spouse, mother. Linda Sharar is an amazing songwriter, and this album shines.” —Christian Bauman, author of "In Hoboken", "Voodoo Lounge" and "The Ice Beneath You".

Daniel Gewertz of the Boston Herald wrote: "One hint of a singer-songwriter's maturation is the company she keeps. Linda Sharar's sophomore effort, 'Any Second Street' boasts a whole crew of Boston's finest musicians: guitarist Duke Levine (Mary Chapin Carpenter), drummer Dave Mattacks (Richard Thompson), bassists Mike Rivard and Richard Gates, and singers Catie Curtis and Christopher Williams, among others. The album, graced by an acute awareness of the fragility of life, is dedicated to two songwriters who died far too early: Alexis Shepard and Don Brody." Friday, July 6, 2001
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Various performance appearances:

Kerrville Folk Festival (Grassy Hill New Folk Finalist)

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (with Camp Hoboken and Respond)

Black Potatoe Festival, Clinton NJ (solo and with the Sharar Sisters)

Club Passim, Cambridge MA 1996-present - 2 full-house CD release concerts and various solo/ITR shows over the years.

Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ (many appearances solo and with Camp Hoboken)

Dogwood Festival GA (with Camp Hoboken)

Eddie's Attic GA (with Camp Hoboken)

Uncle Calvin's TX (with Camp Hoboken)

Bottom Line Cabaret NY (with Camp Hoboken)

Cafe Lena NY (with Camp Hoboken)

Circle of Friends MA  (with Camp Hoboken)

Music Under the Stars NJ 

Baltimore Pride Festival MD
 

Compilations:

Respond Compilations I and II, artist & producer 
Best of Boston Compilation 
Camp Hoboken Vols I and II 
Fast Folk - New Voices NYC 
Oasis Acoustic Sampler (multiple years)