(left to right) Yvette Voelker, Debbie Davis,
Holley Bendtsen
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“The Pfisters' specialty, the recreation of the harmonies of New Orleans' own Boswell Sisters, occupies an important place in the history and evolution of New Orleans music. The Boswell Sisters, in the twenties and thirties, invented close harmony jazz singing. The Pfister Sisters carry on this tradition. Their music, however, is anything but a museum piece. Their voices melt together, their band really kicks, and they get the audience smiling and swaying in the timelessness that is the joy of music.”
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Yvette Voelker
Pianist Amasa Miller
Holley Bendtsen
Debbie Davis
HONORS AND AWARDS
National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD) - Category: Best Women's Music (1986) for "The Pfister Sisters"
The Louisiana State Museum at the Mint (New Orleans, LA), The Jazz Exhibit (1995-98)
FESTIVALS, SPECIAL EVENTS
- D-Day Museum, National Opening Festivities, New Orleans, Louisiana
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, Lousiana
- "All's Well That's Boswell," an historical tribute to the Boswell Sisters, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Charter Members and Performers in Aaron Neville's "New Orleans Artists Against Hunger & Homelessness" concert series with Linda Ronstadt, Rita Coolidge, Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, the Dirty Dozen, Jimmy Buffet, Paul Schaeffer, the Neville Brothers and the Dixi-Kups
- Louisiana Jazz Federation, Jazz Awareness Month Concert, Tribute to the Boswell Sisters
- Telluride Jazz Festival - Telluride, Colorado
- Mobile Jazz Festival - Mobile, Alabama
- Goldenrod Showboat Jazz Festival - St. Louis, Missouri
- 1984 World's Fair - New Orleans
- French Quarter Festival - New Orleans
- "The Last Ride", Pontchartrain Beach
- Rose Berman Memorial Jazz Concert, North Shore Music Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
- Louisiana State Penitentiary Concert with the Neville Brothers and Charmaine Neville, Angola, Louisiana
- "Sing, Sister, Sing", an original musical play based on the life of the Boswell Sisters, New Orleans
- "Dew Drop Inn Revisted", with Charles Neville, at the Contemporary
Arts Center, New Orleans
TV APPEARANCES
- "New Orleans, Now!" - Arts & Entertainment network
- "Breakfast Edition" - WDSU-TV, New Orleans Channel 6
- "New Orleans Talent Party" - local T.V. pilot
- "The Pfister Sisters at Mahogany Hall" - a one-hour PBS special
- "The Pfister Sisters Live From Frank's Wharf" - part of the award winning New Orleans music series, "Music City"
- Disney Cable network's "Coming On"
- "PM Magazine" - WWL-TV, New Orleans
- "Louisiana Jukebox" - Cox Cable