PLYMOUNTH LIBRARY welcomes Youtube Boogie-Woogie Sensation with link to Frederic Chopin and 2.6 million views to perform this SUNDAY, March 16th 2014 @ 3:00 p.m.

Attorney
turned Boogie, Blues, & Ragtime musician, Matthew Ball aka The Boogie
Woogie Kid will heat up the piano keys at The Plymouth District Library this SUNDAY,
March 16th 2014 @ 3:00 p.m. with
a FREE family friendly concert of piano fun!

Today
with over 2.6 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, March 16th 2013 @ 3:00 p.m.

The Plymouth District Library
Welcomes:

Matthew Ball … The Boogie Woogie Kid!

223 South Main Street

Plymouth MI 48170

734.453.0750

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