BETTY HARRIS with Marc Stone's 10 piece all star band.
April 15, 2010 10:00PM
OLD POINT BAR - 545 Patterson St. Algiers Point, New Orleans (Westbank).
$20/door Pre-sales end at 1pm on day of show. After that, tickets at door only

All tickets held at will call. There will be no paper tickets, your name will be on the list with the number of tickets you have purchased. Please bring your ID and a printout of your PayPal receipt.

BETTY HARRIS returns to the Old Point for a rare club appearance. Check out this review of her first concert at the Old Point.

“Betty Harris, on the list of the greatest soul singers of all time, gave a knock down, drag-out-all-the-emotion performance at New Orleans’ Old Point Bar in Algiers Point. Some of the city’s finest back-up musicians were there to support her in the person of Marc Stone’s Band, and the 200 plus audience that crammed into the funky little West Bank neighborhood bar was knocked flat by a performance that happens once in a lifetime.
Harris was in absolutely unbelievable voice as she played it all out over the Algiers’ levee. This was no small feat with a horn section that only the Big Easy could deliver. Harris was all elegance and soul, diamond ring catching the lights as she worked the crowd to their knees, begging for more.
Only 200 people saw Harris at Old Point…it would be fun to hear a recording with Stone’s band, a band that knows what soul is all about and is able to meld perfectly with the performer and support the emotion.”
- Georgianne Nienaber for COA News

Legendary Soul Queen BETTY HARRIS is back on stage after a 35-year hiatus. After quitting show biz in 1970 to pursue the quiet life and raise her family, Harris is blazing back with all of the voice, passion and fire that made her 1963 version of “Cry To Me” a top-10 smash and all-time Deep Soul classic. For the rest of the decade, she would perform as a bona-fide star alongside Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Johnnie Taylor, James Brown, Gladys Knight, Carla Thomas. Her tenure at Allen Toussaint’s Sansu records in from 1965-69, yielded 20 classic sides that helped define New Orleans soul, and her final recording for Sansu, the Meters-backed sonic explosion “Break in the Road” ushered in the era of funk.
Her performances in the US and abroad since her 2005 return to the stage have been nothing short of incendiary. Don’t miss this rare chance to see a true legend of soul music, backed by New Orleans’ finest, face to face in a warm feeling, great sounding, 200 capacity neighborhood venue.

Video of Betty Harris performing her classic "Nearer to You" with Marc Stone's Louisiana Blues Throwdown at Festival MNOP, Perigueux, France. August 11, 2007

MP3 Clips:
"Mean Man" - Betty Harris w. Marc Stone Band Festival MNOP France 2007
"There's A Break In The Road" - Betty Harris produced by Allen Toussaint for SANSU Records, featuring the Meters, 1969
"Cry To Me" produced by Bert Berns for Jubilee Records, 1963

Betty Harris, Basin St Cafe, Boston 1964	Sam Cooke, Tammi Terrell & Betty Harris, Palms Cafe, NYC 1964