We are David Leonard and Roselyn Lionheart and we have been making music & performing together all over the world since 1959. If you do know us, then you might have seen us performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Smithsonian Institute's PBS "River of Song" documentary, the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, or on the streets of the famous French Quarter in New Orleans.

BIO

David Leonard & Roselyn Lionheart history dates back more than five decades. In 1959,   David and Roselyn   met when they were members of an Air Force ensemble that toured and performed at bases around the country. Despite the tense racial climate and rampant bigotry prevalent at time,   six months after their meeting, the interracial couple married. "I started playing piano when I was four, and I still can't play the piano," jokes Roselyn Lionheart. "We came to New Orleans primarily for the music." Make no mistake, the woman is musically talented.   Roselyn Lionheart and husband David Leonard have been performing music in the streets for over fifty years, forty of them in New Orleans. While they are regulars at festivals including
NOLa's Jazz Fest, fairs, festivals and gigs, they continue to spend time every week on New Orlean's famous Royal Street. They are part of the community of artists and musicians that make New Orleans a special place to live and visit.

POETRY

They're Flooding My City Again.
They're flooding my city again, flooding my city again.
Once with water and one with neglect!
They're flooding my city again.
They're flooding my city again, flooding my city again.
The army corp of engineers lied; over a thousand people died.
They're flooding my city again, flooding my city again.
They're flooding my city again, flooding my city again.
Driving all the poor folks out of their homes,
they're flooding my city again...

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David & Roselyn, P.O. Box 70813, New Orleans, LA 70172
Phone: 504-949-3001     Cell: 504-251-6515
email: davidandroselyn@gmail.com

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