The female-fronted quartet DiNOLA will perform in New Orleans this February following the band’s wide-release album debut Up High.

DiNOLA is a New Orleans-based rock band featuring Jimmy Ford on drums, Sue Ford on vocals, Eric Laws on electric guitar and keys, and Eddie Payne on electric bass. The band belongs to a rather eclectic genre which can be described as a re-imagining of heavy British Blues in a manner that echoes the rhythm and gothic voodoo of New Orleans.

Up High, produced by Dave Catching and mixed and recorded by Hayden Scott, features the “active rock sleeper” hit title track as well as a cover version of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put A Spell On You.” The entirety of the album was recorded at Catching’s Rancho Del La Luna studio in Joshua Tree, California, and features some guest guitar work by the producer. Lead vocalist Sue Ford hails from Boston originally, but became fully engrossed in New Orleans’ music scene and formed her first all-female rock band Pink Slip and gained recognition as “Mardi Gras’ First Rock Band.”

DiNOLA  was born as a collaboration between Sue Ford and husband Jimmy Ford, a former bar owner and one-time manager for the dB’s and Richard Hell. Ford says that she “would allow her husband Jimmy to become the band’s drummer, a promotion from his previous duties as sound tech and roadie for Pink Slip.”

The band is a hodgepodge of typical New Orleans residents; Ford herself works by day as a scenic artist in the film business. Collectively, they are an extended family of post-Katrina survivors with a familiar ardor for musical tandem.

DiNOLA will be playing at Circle Bar on February 4, and again at Gasa Gasa on February 6. Tickets for their performance at Circle Bar are $5 with doors opening at 7 p.m., and $10 at Gasa Gasa with doors opening at 8 p.m. Up High arrives via Saustex Records on January 19.