Sarah Quintana is a traditional jazz vocalist, guitarist, singer-songwriter and daughter of New Orleans. She is a vibrant and much-loved performer in the New Orleans musical community. Her songs ring true to her musical upbringing, trails and travels after hurricane Katrina, and her passion for learning, gQuintana plays regularly around the city of New Orleans, with various jazz ensembles and writes folk/jazz standards on the café circuit. Her weekly performances are always exciting with guest musicians from all over the world.
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After Katrina, Quintana went to France for the first time as a CODOFIL scholar to teach English. She attributes her singing career to mal du pays: ” I stayed close to home with jazz.” Marion Rampal is one of Sarah’s grande rencontres; Marion saw Sarah sing in the summer of 2009, and within hours they were harmonizing, improvising and writing songs together. C'etait un coup de foudre musical!

In 2009, Quintana opened up her set at Jazz Fest with a Bessie Smith blues— "Baby wont you Please Come Home," as a dedication to Katrina victims. Later that year, she played Voodoo Fest and hosted a kid's music camp at the Big Top Three RIng Circus.

This summer she sang at the Lincoln Center with the New Orleans Moonshiners and met up with Marion in France for muical adventure Sarah studied Jazz at NOCCA, has a bachelor’ s degree in English Literature & French from Loyola University of New Orleans and is a certified Hatha Yoga instructor.

Her artistic conviction is to honor the cultural wealth of New Orleans by sharing it. Sarah lives for cross-cultural collaborations and aspires to write songs that honor tradition and are innovative: songs that speak. Her mantra is, "Do the best you can everytime and you are garunteed to grow!"rowing and sharing.