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Diunna and her band Blue Mercy and have performed throughout the United States and Internationally, most recently at the Lugano Blues Festival and Bern Jazz Festival both in Switzerland, Cahors Blues Festival, and is slated to do festivals in Canada, England, Italy, France, Virgin Islands and a return trip to Lucern, Switzerland, as well as other performances throughout the United States. Diunna has opened for and performed with the likes of Bob Margolin, Keb Mo, Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, James Cotton, Carrie Bell, Big Bill Morganfield, Smoking Joe Kubek and B’Nois King, Anson Funderburge, Sam Meyers and the Rockets, Bernard Allison, Odetta, Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, I.J. Gosey, Sherman Robertson, Kenny Neal, the late great Teddy “Cry Cry” Reynolds, and numerous others who have befriended her. Diunna was the President of the Houston Blues Society
for three consecutive years, she made history by being the first female
ever elected to hold this position. During her presidency she used her
professional guidance and grant writing skills to produced the Willie
Mae Thornton Blues Festival, bringing in such talent as “The Queen Of
Blues” Mrs. Koko Taylor, Mr. Bernard Allison, Texas Johnny Brown, I.J.
Gosey, Diane Price, Mel Waiters, Betty Lewis, Gary Clark, Jr., Jeremy
And The Hotboys, and many others. Diunna started the annual Houston
Blues Society Founders Day and actively continued the Blues In Schools
Program throughout the state. She is one of the founders of Friends of
Blues Montgomery County. |
Diunna
Greenleaf, the Leader of Blue Mercy is a native Texan (Houston) who has
a background steeped in gospel music. Influenced by the likes of