Tickets £12, Doors 7pm, Performance 9pm

Lillian Boutté

It is with enormous pleasure that we welcome back to Hideaway the brilliant New Orleans singer Ms. Lillian Boutté.

On the music scene for more than 30 years, Lillian is a monument to Jazz, Gospel and R&B. She has performed and recorded with a myriad of legendary musicians including Jay Mc Shane, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Milt Hinton, Gus Johnson, Doc Cheatham, Arnett Cobb, Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Clark Terry and our own Humphrey Lyttleton. She has, quite literally, travelled the world performing her brand of New Orleans Jazz and R&B. Named “New Orleans Musical Ambassador” in 1986, she was only the second jazz legend in the city’s history to be accorded this honour - the first being Louis Armstrong.

A successful actress and stage performer as well she appeared in and sung on the sound track of Allan Parker’s “Angel Heart” and was for 4 years a featured performer in the classic stage show “One Mo Time”, performing with the show in New Orleans, Sweden and Brazil. In 1992 she took the show “Spirit of Louisiana” to Germany, in 1992 to 1994 she toured “Gospel United” around Europe culminating in 1995 with Lillian and her group performing in Denmark with a 3,000 voice Gospel choir.

Lillian has been touring almost non-stop for the last 18 years doing concerts, club dates and festivals all over the world and with the help of 17 albums featuring jazz, pop, blues, soul and gospel has striven to convey New Orleans’s unique atmosphere to an international audience. Although now based in Europe this has become particularly important for Lillian post Hurricane Katrina and she has been widely praised over the last 3 years for her tireless efforts to raise money for victims and to enable reconstruction work in her devastated home town.

A unique singer who blends all that is best in Jazz, Gospel and R&B in one high energy, enormously entertaining package. The band Lillian leads tonight also features one of the UK’s finest guitarists Denny Ilett.

“A versatile singer from New Orleans now based in Europe, …she takes a song like “All of Me” and turns it into a work of jazz art. Her rendition of “He Touched Me” reflects the depth of her feeling for her gospel roots. The ballads “I Cried for You” and “For All We Know” are perfect vehicles for showcasing the soft and subtle way that she engages in a song and “Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night” shows her bluesy side. One can understand upon hearing Lillian Boutté sing why music is her life” All Music Guide.