My first passion is music.  I have been a vocalist for 20 years, beginning in my home town of Evansville, Indiana, where I grew up the youngest of 9 children.  I have worked with various theater and music groups in Tucson, Arizona, and New York City.  I now resides in San Diego where she is a professional vocalist in several capacities. 

Operatically trained, I recently recorded my first solo vocal jazz cd of some of my favorite songs from the 30's and 40's.  You can hear sound bytes below or on www.myspace.com/franhartshorn.  Places II have performed include Buon Giorno Italian Restaurant and Hawthorn's Restaurant in the Birch North Park Theatre.

I am a vocalist with the Moonlight Serenade Orchestra, a 20+ piece live big band. They play all the great music of the big band era, including Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, among others.  See www.themso.com for more information. 

I am a former member of the retro-Vegas-lounge act, Blue Velvet, which was known for their harmonizing and unique arrangements of great songs from the 60’s and 70’s by Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters, the 5^th Dimension, and Abba.  

I have been on the Lyric Opera San Diego stage for the past ten years in productions such as “Die Fledermaus”, “Pirates of Penzance”, “Oliver!” “HMS Pinafore”, “The Gondoliers”, and “Candide”, and will be seen as the Housekeeper in "Man of La Mancha" in September, 2007 at the Birch North Park Theatre.  Visit www.lyricoperasandiego.org or www.birchnorthparktheatre.net  for more information.

I have been a vocalist with Opus Melodious, a quartet that performs the music of Mozart, Gershwin, and Broadway.  Find out more about Opus Melodious at www.opusmelodious.com. 

For bookings please contact Fran Hartshorn by email at fran@wirediva.com.