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Detroit-born Attorney turned Youtube Boogie-Woogie Piano Sensation with link to Frederic Chopin and 2.4 million views to perform at Trinity House Theater, September 21st 2013 @ 8pm!
“Detroit-born
Attorney turned Youtube Boogie-Woogie Piano Sensation with link to Frederic
Chopin and 2.4 million views to perform at Trinity House Theater, September 21st
2013 @ 8pm!”
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Detroit-born
Attorney turned Boogie, Blues, & Ragtime musician, Matthew Ball aka The
Boogie Woogie Kid will heat up the piano keys at the Trinity House Theater this
Saturday, September 21st 2013 @ 8:00 p.m.
Performing
now for 20 years, and today with over 2.4 million youtube views of his
past performance and at home video footage, Ball has become an area phenomena
with descriptions of his performances like “Awesome!” “Crushing!”
Fantastic!”
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He also boasts a pedagogical link to Frederic Chopin himself!, having studied
classically at Oakland University with Dr. Flavio Varani. Professor
Varani traced his pedigree of study through the Paris Conservatory back to
Frederic Chopin by way of Magda Tagliaferro, Alfred Cortot, and Emile Descombs,
who was a late pupil of the composer Chopin.
Suffice
to say you won’t want to miss this toe-tappin’ program of family piano fun
featuring boogie & blues arrangements of classic American songs like
Swanee River, Over the Rainbow, The Entertainer, Bumble Boogie and many
more! Here are the details:
Saturday,
September 21st 2013 @8:00 p.m.
Matthew Ball aka The Boogie Woogie Kid w/
Greg Sobol on drums!
Trinity House Theater
38840 W. Six Mile
Livonia, MI 48152-2605
734.464.6302
admission: $15 general / $12 for members
Matthew Ball left a career as an
attorney in 2001 after he attended a local boogie-woogie festival, to
become a blues and boogie-woogie man. Now, with an array of
accomplishments, he has distinguished himself as ‘one of the best’
practitioners of the genre today. Described as ‘a nationally emerging
boogie-woogie master,’ Matthew is becoming one of today’s leading
performing authorities on this treasured American tradition.
Watch
Matthew heat up the keys in these youtube clips:
Bumble Bee Boogie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmM5b4jgijg
Swanee
River Boogie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQDjapKrqs