LAKE PLACID – The Pines Inn Songs at Mirror Lake Music Series presented by Adirondack “By Owner” has announced the sixth performance in the seven-week series, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, as New Orleans Boogie Night with Marcia Ball.

The title track of Ball’s new album, “The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man,” is a tale of true love at the travelling carnival.

The Texas-born, Louisiana-raised musical storyteller has earned worldwide fame for her ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she strolls onto the stage.

In 2010, she was inducted into the Gulf Coast Hall Of Fame and in 2012 into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. She’s received a total of six Living Blues Awards and nine Blues Music Awards (and has 42 nominations). She’s received five Grammy Award nominations, including five of her six previous “Alligator” albums.

Always a songwriter of renown, Ball delved deeper into songwriting than she ever had in her career with her Grammy-nominated 2010 Alligator release, Roadside Attractions, creating one of her best and most personal albums.

“The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man” features her road-tested road band, with help from friends Delbert McClinton and Terrance Simien and production by Grammy-winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Joe Louis Walker, James Cotton, Susan Tedeschi).

After a solo LP for Capitol and a successful series of releases on Rounder, Ball joined the Alligator Records family in 2001 with the release of the critically acclaimed “Presumed Innocent.” The CD took home the 2002 Blues Music Award for Blues Album Of The Year. 2004’s “So Many Rivers,” 2005’s “Live! Down The Road,” 2008’s “Peace, Love & BBQ” and 2010’s “Roadside Attractions” all received Grammy Award nominations as well as critical and popular acclaim.

Born in Orange, Texas in 1949 to a family whose female members all played piano, Ball grew up in the small town of Vinton, Louisiana, right across the border from Texas.

She began taking piano lessons at age five, playing old Tin Pan Alley tunes from her grandmother’s collection. From her aunt, Marcia heard more modern and popular music. But it wasn’t until she was 13 that Marcia discovered the power of soul music. One day in 1962, she sat amazed while Irma Thomas delivered the most spirited performance the young teenager had ever seen. “She just blew me away; she caught me totally unaware,” Ball said. “Once I started my own band, the first stuff I was doing was Irma’s.” Ball has been featured on leading television and radio programs, including “Austin City Limits” and NPR’s “Fresh Air and Piano Jazz.” She performed in “Piano Blues,” the film directed by Clint Eastwood included in Martin Scorsese’s “The Blues” series, which aired on PBS television nationwide in 2003. Ball has also appeared “The Late Show With David Letterman” with The New Orleans Social Club, where she not only reached millions of people, she helped to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In 2012, she had a role in the independent film “Angels Sing,” starring Harry Connick Jr., Lyle Lovett and Willie Nelson.

Ball has been the subject of stories in many national publications, including USA Today, Keyboard, DownBeat, Billboard, and in newspapers from coast to coast.

She has twice performed on “A Prairie Home Companion,” appeared on “World Cafe” and “Whad’Ya Know?,” Public Radio International’s “Studio 360,” as well as on XM/Sirius satellite radio.