The Pfister Sisters - New Orleans Jazz Vocal Harmonists

"The Pfister Sisters are exactly what music SHOULD be...they bring joy to your soul, harmony to your ears, and the best and biggest boogie-woogie to your feet. No part of you can stand still when they start singing! Run, do not walk, to hear them whenever you can! "May 2008- Amanda McBroom - composer of Bette Midler’s hit song “The Rose”

The Pfister Sisters have delighted audiences with their sweet hot jazz harmonies since 1979. They were singled out in 1981 by Variety as one of the best new acts of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and 20 years later, their 2001 Jazz Fest performance was described in newspaper and online media as "sublime" and "sparkling."

“Any one of these three could hold a stage in her own right. It's rare for 3 singers of this caliber to work with the intense discipline required to create this sound. What they accomplish is dazzling. Don't miss them.”
Provincetown Magazine

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NEWS

We now perform at Jimbeaux's on Tuesdays at 6:30-9:30 pm, instead of Wednesdays. Jimbeaux is the old "Spotted Cat" club - 623 Frenchman.
in the Marigny - 1 block from Esplanade avenue.   MAP
See our last Photo under the old name

Nominated for Gambit's Big Easy Awards as Best Female Performers!

- Original Pfister, Suzy Malone Jenner joined us for French Quarter Festival and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

French Quarter Fest - April 2009

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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - May 2009

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Photo credit: Zack Smith

Clockwise from left:
Piano man Amasa Miller;
Baby Wrangler Marilyn Bohren holding
Debbie's latest project, Henry Davis Perrine;
Vocalists - Yvette Voelker, Debbie Davis, Holley Bendtsen;
Engineer - Tim Stambaugh Producer - Spencer Bohren

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Photo credit: Zack Smith

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What's Going On

Every Sunday: Brunch at Marigny Brasserie, Frenchmen at Royal, 11:30 - 2:30
Every Tuesday : Jombeaux's (formerly The Spotted Cat) 623 Frenchmen Street, 6:30 - 9:30

It's our 30th Anniversary - Celebrations!
Original Sister Suzie Malone journeyed from Maine to perform at Jazz Fest, and we also featured our wonderful substitute Sisters (some second-generation), who have made it possible for us to continue through years of babies and what-not. From our first gig with the New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra in 1979 till today - what a song it's been! Come celebrate with us all year long.

April-May 2009
Height of the the Fest Season here in New Orleans. The Pfister Sisters were welcomed by records crowds at French Quarter Fest and Jazz Fest. The music lovers were treated to performances from Pformer and Pfriendly Pfisters: Suzie Malone

January 2009
The Pfister Sisters toured all over Germany, received much applause, and had a great time to boot (no pun intended).

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August 2008
The Pfister Sisters performed to month long sell-out crowds in Berlin, Germany. The caberet show "Sing Sing Sing Sing", was created by and for us at the world renowned Cabaret Bar-jeder Vernunftn, with musical director Harry Mayronne, Jr., Matt Rhody and Joyce Zellinger.

July 2008
Jazz Ascona was a huge success. The audience was enthralled, and insisted on an encore, which is very unusual and special at Jazz Ascona. The Pfister Sisters are now in rehearsal at the Bar-jeder vernunft Caberet. Read about "Il Pfister Sisters" and "Der Pfister Sisters" on Yvette's NOLA.com blog and Debbie's Myspace blog.

June 2008
The lovely ladies of swing (Boswell N'awlins style) are rehearsing for Ascona and the Berlin "Sing Sing Sing Sing" cabaret show created by and for them. Come see them - the public performances in New Orleans include some of the show material.

May 2008
The official post-festival, pre-summer, CD release party for “Puttin It On” was at Snug Harbor May 29, 8 & 10pm.Ascona Jazz Festival - Switzerland (www.jazzascona.ch/ June 27 – July 7,) Berlin - a month long engagement - July 17 at Bar-Jeder Vernunft (www.bar-jeder-vernunft.de/), one of Berlin’s premier cabaret venues. In typical Pfister Pfashion, we brought high-heeled shoes AND babies.!

April 2008
Our latest CD, “Puttin' It On,” is ready in time for our French Quarter Fest and Jazz Fest performances. With Spencer Bohren (www.spencerbohren.com/) at the production helm, we experimented with a little bit different sound than our previous CD’s, and we’re all pleased with the result.

Please send an email if you have a gig for us!

Holley Bendtsen, Yvette Voelker, Debbie Davis and Amasa Miller comprise one of the few groups that represent the New Orleans swing era, with their recreation of The Boswell Sisters arrangements, and the only act featuring vocal jazz harmony. The Pfisters have sung with the Neville Brothers at Angola State Prison, with Linda Rondstadt and Jimmy Buffet at the New Orleans Artists Against Homelessness and Hunger concerts, with Vet Boswell of the Boswell Sisters in New York and New Orleans and with Maxene Andrews of the Andrews sisters on the wing of an airplane.

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