“Clinton-Macomb Library to celebrate Black History month with FREE Ragtime, Boogie-Woogie & Blues family musical performance this Sunday, Feb. 9th @ 2pm!”

“Clinton-Macomb
Library to celebrate Black History month with FREE Ragtime, Boogie-Woogie &
Blues family musical performance

this Sunday, Feb. 9th @ 2pm!”

Local
boy Matthew Ball who is known as the attorney turned Boogie, Blues, &
Ragtime musician, and online as The Boogie Woogie Kid will heat up the piano
keys at The Royal Oak Library this Sunday, February 9th 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
with a FREE family friendly concert of piano fun!

Today
with over 2.5 million youtube views of his past performance and at home
video footage, Ball has truly become a phenomenon, with descriptions of his
performances like “Awesome!” “Crushing!”
Fantastic!” 

He also boasts a
pedagogical link to Frederic Chopin
himself!, having studied classically at Oakland University in Rochester MI 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 special toe-tappin’ program of family piano fun featuring classics like Swanee
River, Over the Rainbow, The Entertainer, Bumble Boogie and so many
more!  Here are the details:

Sunday,
February 9th 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.

Clinton-Macomb Public Library Welcomes:

Matthew Ball ... The Boogie Woogie Kid!

40900 Romeo Plank Road

Clinton Twp.  MI 48038-2955

admission: free

length: 1 hour

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, after a decade in the field, 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

WEBSITE: www.boogiewoogiekid.com

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