Date for the LaBelle Reunion!

Patti Labelle,Nona Hendryx & Sarah Dash has made it official. We will have a new cd from them on September 23rd! Here's to hoping that this is done well & lives up to what we would expect of them. Patti Labelle is the breakout star, but it is "Labelle" that I am truly a fan of. I have to admit I to this day listen to the "Nightbirds" cd as much as anything else. Just had the entire cd on repeat in the player just last week. Divine! They have producers who if they get their shit together properly should produce something us fans can relish for years to come. Let's keep our fingers crossed....
attached is an article from Billboard.com

Labelle Sets Date For Reunion Album

Patti LaBelle

June 30, 2008 , 3:05 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

R&B trio Labelle is hitting the studio for a reunion album to be produced by Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff and Lenny Kravitz. The as-yet-untitled set, the group first since 1976's "Chameleon," is due Sept. 23 via Verve.

In addition, the group, which comprises Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, will perform July 5 in New Orleans as part of the Essence Festival at the Louisiana Superdome.

Although Labelle has performed live on numerous occasions since officially splitting up more than three decades ago, the group's spokesperson says the Essence set is its first public concert since January 1977.

Labelle is best known for the single "Lady Marmalade," which reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1975. The track was famously covered in 2001 by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink on the "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack.

Patti LaBelle has a number of her own dates lined up this summer; next up is a show tomorrow (July 1) in Albuquerque, N.M.