A sampling of venues and festivals where Leni has performed:
U.S.A.
55 Bar - New York - New York
Acoustic Cafe - Bridgeport, Connecticut
Agenda Lounge - Santa Barbara, California
Ameoba Music - Los Angeles, California
Atlas Performing Arts Center - Washington DC
Austin Jazz and Arts Festival - Austin, Texas
Baked Potato - Los Angeles, California
Battery Park Festival - New York, New York
BB Kings (opening for Salif Keita) - New York, New York
Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival - New York, New York
Bluebird - Nashville, Tennessee
Blues Alley - Washington DC
Bossa - Washington DC
Bowery Poetry Club - New York, New York
Cafe Metropol - Los Angeles, California
City of Angels Jazz Festival - Los Feliz, California
Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival - Chenango, New York
Dazzle Jazz- Denver, CO
Falcon - Marlboro, NY
Freight and Salvage - Berkeley, California
JVC Jazz Festival - New York, New York
Knitting Factory - New York, New York
New Mexico Jazz Festival- Santa Fe, New Mexico
Newport Folk Festival - Newport, Rhode Island
Nighttown - Cleveland, Ohio
Night Eagle Cafe - Oxford, New York
Old Town School of Folk - Chicago, Illinois
Outpost - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Otherlands - Memphis, Tennessee
Red Poppy Arthouse - San Francisco, California
Rocco’s- Los Angeles, California
Rockwood Music Hall - New York, New York
The Royal Room - Seattle, WA
Sculler's Jazz Club - Boston, Massachusetts
ShapeshifterLab - Brooklyn, NY
Soho - Santa Barbara, California
The Ark - Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Living Room - New York, New York
The Middle East - Boston, Massachusetts
Towne Crier Cafe - Pawling, New York
United Nations - New York, New York
University of Maryland, Clarice Smith Center - College Park, Maryland
University of Miami - Oxford, Ohio
Whynot Jazz Café - New York, New York
Winery at St. George - Mohegan Lake, New York
Yoshi's - Oakland, California
International-
Alte Feuerwache - Mannheim, Germany
Amsterdam Jazz Festival - The Netherlands
Bath Guitar Festival - Bath, UK
Berlin Jazz Festival - Berlin, Germany
Big Mama - Rome, Italy
Brot Fabrique - Frankfurt, Germany
Budapest Jazz Festival - Hungary
Catania - Sicily, Italy
Concert Series at the Museum of Modern Art - Tel Aviv, Israel
Concert with Symphony Orchestra - Bologna, Italy
Domicil - Bonn, Germany
Eastwind Festival - New Delhi, India
Fabrique - Hamburg, Germany
Festival in the Desert - Esakane, Mali
Festival les Blues du Fleuve - Podor, Senegal
Garathe - Dusseldorf, Germany
Goa Jazz Festival - Goa, India
Irish-Bar Dan - Äänekoski, Finland
Jazz Bar - Jyväskylä, Finland
Just For You - Dakar, Senegal
Kulturforum Schorndorf - Schorndorf, Germany
Malmitalo Concert House - Helsinki, Finland
Mamaya Festival: maison de la culture - Dakar, Senegal
Mamaya Festival: Theatre National Daniel Sorano - Dakar, Senegal
Matkahuollon Baari - Pihtipudas, Finland
Melkweg - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Miekkaniemi International aartist Residence - Viitasaari, Finland
Moffou (with Salif Keita) - Bamako, Mali
Moods - Zurich, Switzerland
New Morning - Paris, France
Nicaragua Jazz Festival - Nicaragua
Palais de La Culture (with Ousmane Kouyate) - Conakry, Guinea
Palais National (with Baaba Maal) - Bamako, Mali
Palermo - Sicily, Italy
Parcel Asseni Stadium (with Baaba Maal) - Dakar, Senegal
Prague Jazz Festival - Czech Republic
Quasimodo - Berlin, Germany
Radio 2 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Serano National Theater (with Baaba Maal) - Dakar, Senegal
Spielboden Dornbirn - Dornbirn, Germany
Stadtgarton - Cologne, Germany
Talin Jazz Festival - Estonia
Tbilissi Jazz Festival - Georgia
The Patio - Bamako, Mali
The Reykjavik Jazz Festival - Iceland
Theaterhaus - Stuttgart, Germany
Tollhaus - Karlsruhe, Germany
Treibhaus Innsbruck - Austria
Unterfahrt - Munich, Germany
Vilnius Jazz Festival - Lithiunia
Warsaw Jazz Festival - Warsaw, Poland