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AN UPDATE FROM LEIGH - November 10, 2006:

there really IS a fall, y'all, and i'm smack dab in the middle of it: the parkways are exploding with colors i've never seen in my life, families of deer come looking for food in the backyard, and the supermarkets all have firewood piled high as an elephant's eye outside the front doors. now i know for sure i'm not in south louisiana...

but so much for nature. i promised you more news and here's a hot flash:

LQ on iTunes!
now you don't even have to wait for the mailman.those of you so digitally inclined will find a whole lot of me by typing LEIGH HARRIS into the search box--House of Secrets, Polychrome Junction, and two compilation albums await. don't forget we have gin-u-wine bootlegs of Purple Heart available on our website and on ebay--say "i love you" with the gift of guerilla music this christmas...

LQ at Food For Thought Bistro in Williamsburg VA!
and, for those of you in the neighborhood, i'll be kicking it this saturday night, November 11th, at Food For Thought Bistro in williamsburg VA, with my badass midatlantic quartet! for more info call the club at 757-655-4665, and come on out & raise the roof with us!.

with love from the fiery-hued hills,
leigh

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AN UPDATE FROM LEIGH - September 20, 2006:

hi y'all,
as katrina survivors go, i've truly been one of the luckier ones : separated only from my birthplace, family, lifelong friends, stuffed artichokes, and the masters of my one-day-to-completion CD, Purple Heart; but i'm alive, surrounded by & about to blow out a bunch of ferocious music with new friends and colleagues in my new, more northerly neighborhood; and, in honor of our many beloved departees, and each & every one of dem who's kept on gwine, i've bootlegged my own recordings. for all of y'all who have waited so patiently for this album, in very limited quantities, for a very limited time, a no-frilled bathtub-distilled edition of Purple Heart is available through--where else?--ebay, pending label distribution.so log on to ebay.com and ask for "little queenie's purple heart". a buck from every sale goes to survivors aid organizations. as always, your caring support is appreciated beyond words-- my thanks to everyone everywhere who's kept e-tabs on me and all displaced new orleans artists during these last, ahem, challenging 12 months. and watch for lots more LQ news this fall & winter--a guaranteed surprise in every box.

with love from your favorite crackerjack,
leigh

AN UPDATE FROM LEIGH - December 20, 2005:

Like most New Orleanians, my life continues to be a kaliedescope of physical and emotional changes--some inspiring, some heartbreaking, all fairly mindblowing--during the weeks and months since Katrina roared through it.

Click here for more information and an update from Leigh...

Read the latest update from Leigh - She's safe in Austin, TX. Read more...

Learn more about "Purple Heart" - the next CD release from Little Queenie! Read more...

"HOUSE OF SECRETS" RE-RELEASED ON DEEVA RECORDS - That's right, I've acquired the production rights to HOS and re-released the CD on Deeva Records. As you might remember, Q-Ball was also released under the Deeva Records label. I'm excited about making HOS available again and am looking forward to working with a variety of emerging artists - putting out more content on Deeva Records in the future.

The newly re-released CD is available online (right here!), via CD Baby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/leighharris), and at many local records stores (if you don't find it in a local store, please ask for it).

Many thanks to my friends at Rolling Storm Communications (http://rolling-storm.com) for helping to work out all of the production details for the HOS re-release. You'll be hearing more about them in the future too.

Chuck Taggart, the producer of "Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans" was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition with Sheilah Kast. He talks about the collection of music on the CDs and also about how they decided on the name for the boxed set (for example, how did they come up with the idea to use "Queens"?). Listen, learn and enjoy!

Click here to listen to the interview (including some sound clips) from the NPR web site...

Or click here for more information about the NPR interview...

Leigh Harris, aka "Little Queenie", is a women of many talents and accomplishments. Leigh Harris co-founded Little Queenie and the Percolators with John Magnie, and over the years has shared billing with such diverse artists as B.B. King, Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal, Asleep at the Wheel, the Neville Brothers, the Guess Who and NRBQ.

She appeared in two John Sayles films including the Louisiana-set "PASSIONFISH" and has provided music for other feature films, as well as television and radio commercials in the US and Europe.

Harris is the leader of several bands including the "MIXED KNOTS", "YER BASIC MOTHERF*@>ERS", and her Women's Chorus who appeared with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert called "This Rhythm is Ours."

She completed her first solo album in 1999 - "HOUSE OF SECRETS". After winning the prestigious Big Easy Award for Best Female Performer in 2000, she went on to produce and record her second solo record - "POLYCHROME JUNCTION" in 2001.

During the 2003 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Harris produced a live concert under the aegis of the arts administration program at the University of New Orleans, with jazz pianist Michael Wolff, entitled "Unforgettable: Reinterpreting American Song from Armstrong to Zevon" in Warren Zevon's honor, shortly before his death.

She paricipated that summer in New York's Central Park Summerstage Series in a tribute to Janis Joplin, along with a stellar array of female vocalists including Phoebe Snow, Kate Pearson, Judith Owen, Genya Ravan, Susheela Raman, Lene Lovich, and many others from around the world.

Later that year, to benefit the New Orleans musicians' clinic, she recorded three songs for the CD, "Patchwork: a Tribute to James Booker" (STR digital records, STR-1014), one of which, 'Providence Provides', was nominated by Offbeat Magazine as 'Song of the Year'.

In the months following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Harris performed at numerous benefits around the country, including Austin's "Sixth Street for Bourbon Street" and The New Yorker magazine's concert at Town Hall, "Parting the Waters". An update of the classic "My Dawlin New Orleans" was recorded at Dockside Studios in Lafayette, LA, for Nonesuch's "Our New Orleans" series.Having eventually relocated to higher ground, she returned to New Orleans for the 2006 Jazz & Heritage Festival, where her set was broadcast/webcast live from the fairgrounds by WWOZ-FM. She also began the search for masters of her nearly-completed pre-Katrina CD, Purple Heart, and has just made a limited edition "bathtub" version available to the public.

Harris is now working on several new projects in the MidAtlantic area.