WASHINGTON, DC--This Spring weekend in Georgetown, producer/songwriter and pianist Allen Touissant will join forces with Marva Wright, New Orleans' Queen of the Blues to perform at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, with shows from March 22-25 at 8pm and 10pm for $45. Drawing his inspiration from New Orleans, Touissant relocted to the Big Apple after Hurricane Katrina while having his home rebuilt. "I consider myself a visitor in New York," he said. "Idefinitely think that New York is the best place for me to be at this time, for just for business reasons. But whereever I am, I'm always on my way back to New Orleans."

And for singer Wright, she has relocated to Bel Air, Maryland in the wake of the Hurricane. They both participated in the IMAX Theatre Film, "Hurricane on the Bayou." Touissant hopes to move back to New Orleans in two months and remains optimistic that the city will return to its full glory in about ten years. "Whenever I go back, I ride all over town. Htere are still miles and miles of houses that are totally gutted," he said. "But there are many trailers with people constantly working on their own houses and getting things in order. So there's progress going on constantly." For more information on the show, call 202-337-4141.

Postcards from Katrina TM, a project of Creative Cause, is a community arts and health prevention project to build promote arts and writing for healing after crisis.