Ghalia Volt cut her chops busking in the streets of her native Belgium and fronting blues-rock bands. The personable singer, drummer, guitarist, and songwriter followed the blues trail to New Orleans - where she fronted the local band Mama’s Boys - to Chicago and back down the river through Mississippi and finally back to the Crescent City, where she is now based. She’s charted on the Billboard Blues Chart with her 2019 album Mississippi Blend, which includes appearances by Cody Dickinson and Cedric Burnside, among others. Since then she’s stripped down her sound ahead of her One Woman Band project, which began with a month-long songwriting Amtrak trip and launched a solo tour. Her 2023 Shout Sister Shout! release brings her back with a full band and includes originals like “Po Boy John” as well as her rocking version of the blues standard title cut.