At Cosmopolitan Festival Leicester 3pm, Saturday August 23rd 2014 Uber diva Carol Leeming, will perform classic and original songs with long time keyboard player and partner in music, eclectic virtuoso Neil Hunter. This a new festival, due to be opened by the City Mayor Peter Soulsby, will take place in the newly created Jubilee Gardens, opposite BBC Radio Leicester. The Cosmopolitan Festival features many other wonderful artists both performing and visual.
Carol and her band, The Random Acts of Senseless Beauty, play a residency the first Thursday in each month at the new Bar Restaurant Sugar Loaf Braunstone Gate. Delighting a diverse audience, who crave their blistering soul jazz funk world musical alchemy. In addition to other gig dates, the band are enjoying an enhanced profile, that consolidates their unassailable legendary status in the city. To attend one of their gigs, is a totally unforgettable unique experience, that people talk about for many years after the event. Such is Carol Leeming’s vocal power versatility and musical expressivity, coupled with a group of excellent musicians of world class stature.
Carol and her band plan to perform more gigs and to record in the near future, a new song collection titled Jupiter Butterfly, written by Carol Leeming, which she says will explore new approaches and influences, that show a deeper aspect, of her accomplished successful song writing. The direct result of her acclaimed creative writing prowess, over the years and more recent profound personal experiences.