A masterful blues pianist and vocal stylist, Mississippi Delta native Eden Brent took 2010 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player and 2009 Acoustic Album and Acoustic Artist of the Year trophies at the Blues Music Awards. Eden Brent's piano playing and singing style ranges from a melancholic whisper to a full-blown juke joint holler.
Critics laud her "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin" attitude, compare her to jazz / pop dynamos Norah Jones and Sarah Vaughn, and wax effusively about her "whiskey-smoke" voice.
"Music school taught me to think, but Boogaloo Ames taught me to boogie-woogie," says Brent, who appeared alongside her mentor in the 1999 PBS documentary Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound and in the 2002 South African production Forty Days in the Delta.
Sharing a bill with B.B. King, Brent performed at the 2005 presidential inauguration. She's also burnished her reputation via appearances on radio shows like the syndicated Beale Street Caravan and Sirius / XM's Bluesville. Eden will be perfoming along with her band for this show.