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Ledisi (sounds like “Lettuce-y) left New Orleans’ Hollygrove neighborhood when she was nine, moving with her family to Oakland, but she has been raising her New Orleans profile in recent years. She performed as part of the Trombone Shorty-curated Red Hot + New Orleans concert in Brooklyn in December 2010, and she joins Shorty on the track “Then There Was You” on his For True album.

Her live performances in the area include an appearance at Jazz Fest in 2010 that was one of the high points of the festival, and she performs tonight at the House of Blues.