LEAH-CARLA GORDONE

DANCING ON THE DRAGON TOUR

Announces Texas and West Coast Tour Dates

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Daughter of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Charles Gordone,

A Fixture at Columbus’ COMFEST Arts Festival, Has Opened for The Indigo Girls And Norah Jones



Leah-Carla Gordone is bringing her Dancing On The Dragon Tour to venues in Texas and the West Coast in support of her newly released Dancing On The Dragon CD:



November 15 7:30pm MSC Rumours, TAMU College Station, TX

November 22 7pm El Mercado’s Music Lounge 1302 S. 1st St., Austin, TX

November 25 8:30pm Rusty’s 256 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA

November 29 8:30pm The Gig 7302 Melrose Ave, Hollywood, CA

December 2 7pm Borders 5800 Shellmound St, Emeryville, CA

December 4 6pm BrainWash Café/Laundromat 1122 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA

December 7 9pm Mr. Spot’s Chai House 5463 NW Leary Ave, Seattle, WA

December 9 7pm Borders 1402 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett, WA

December 10 8pm Dream Street Live 2228 Bacon St, San Diego, CA

December 12 9pm Genghis Cohen 740 N. Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA



*More Dates TBA



Aside from the playful smile and tight grip on her cherished 12-string guitar, the first thing you’ll notice about singer-songwriter Leah-Carla Gordone is her bright, long royal blue hair. But as she sings on “Beauty,” one of the key tracks from her hot new Dancing on the Dragon CD, she’d prefer that we go deeper: ”And if we both look past what human eyes can see/Then maybe we’ll agree on beauty/And What It Really Means.”

Take that as an invitation to draw closer, and you’ll be moved by a vision even more compelling--the incredibly artistic tattoo down the length of her left arm which brilliantly depicts the musical and lyrical inspirations behind the album, which was released October 4, 2005 on her own Fat Dragon Productions label. “The Road,” the collection’s autobiographical first single is currently being promoted to Hot AC, Top 40 and Crossover radio stations across the country, is a tale of personal growth applied to a more universal consciousness. The single has already started to generate airplay across the nation.

The song is a colorful reflection of her years of dues-paying, where she’s been, what she’s becoming, and her sense of destiny—which she then opens up to the interconnectedness of people throughout the world: “And aren’t we all God’s children under the sun? You and I, You and I, We Are One.” Gordone recently headed down from her adopted hometown of Columbus, Ohio—where she has opened at Promowest Pavilion for The Indigo Girls and Norah Jones--to Nashville to record a shorter version of the original track featuring a funkier beat, organ instead of violin, plus Wurlitzer piano and electric guitar.



The daughter of the late playwright Charles Gordone, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1970 play “No Place To Be Somebody,” the New York City native was a Theatre Arts major at SUNY New Paltz, where she played the Liza Minelli role in “Cabaret”; honed her chops as a regular at NYC clubs like CBGB’s, Bitter End and Mercury Lounge; and performed everywhere from Woodstock to Boston, Key West, London, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Nashville before settling into the vibrant arts community of Columbus, Ohio.



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