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Bumble Boogie by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 772 views Matthew Ball aka performs his signature finale: The Bumble Boogie - join the facebook fan page for more info on Matthew. Get the music on his latest CD titlted "Rainmaker"...
Tipitina by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 501 views Matthew Ball performs Tipitina, find out more or talk with Matthew on his Facebook Fan Page! - Get the music @ CDbaby on his latest CD titled "Rainmaker" - Learn Boogie, Bl...
12th Street Rag Boogie Woogie by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 414 views Matthew Ball performs the 12th street rag boogie-woogie style, find out more or talk with Matthew on his Facebook Fan Page! - Get the music @ CDbaby on his latest CD titled...
Swanee River Boogie by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 674 views Matthew Ball aka performs Swanee River Boogie-Woogie - join the facebook fan page for more info on Matthew or to talk with him. Get the music on his latest CD titlted "Rain...
Last Call Blues by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 553 views Matthew Ball aka performs his Last Call Blues, a homage to the classic blues titled After Hours - join the facebook fan page for more info on Matthew or to talk with him. G...
The Boogaloo by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 310 views Matthew Ball aka performs his Boogaloo a piano piece in the style of the late great James Booker - join the facebook fan page for more info on Matthew or to talk with him. ...
The Highstepper by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 441 views Matthew plays the styles of Dr. John and Professor Longhair in his smashin' version of the combined Cow Cow alla Big Cheif called "The Highstepper." Join the facebook fan ...
The Motor City Breakdown by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 219 views Matthew Ball aka performs his Motor City Breakdown here, a nod to the famous Chicago Breakdown - join the facebook fan page for more info on Matthew or to talk with him. Ge...
Boogie Woogie Piano by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 656 views Matthew Ball aka The Boogie Woogie Kid pounds the keys of Arthur Rubenstein's Steinway here in a solo performance of his take on the original Boogie Woogie ... Pinetops boo...
Motor City Breakdown by The Boogie Woogie Kid Boogiewoogiekid 277 views Matthew Ball aka performs his Barrelhouse Blues to a record sell out crowd here - the doors were left open for a standing audience - join the facebook fan page for more inf...

About Matthew Ball

Boogie Woogie & Blues Pianist

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Described as "the Gen-x arrival to this uniquely American art-form," by The Ann Arbor News, "a rising giant," by New York's Metroland of Albany, and as "One of Michigan's premier blues and boogie-woogie pianists," by the Holland Sentinel, Matthew Ball is a graduate of Oakland University and The University of Detroit School of Law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in both Music and History, as well as a Juris Doctorate in Law. He trained classically at Oakland University with the internationally renowned classical pianist Flavio Varani, a graduate of the Paris Conservatory and The Manhattan School of Music as a Harold Bauer Award winner.

Matthew's first public performances as a pianist include a back to back appearance with the Pontiac-Oakland Symphony in '92 & '93 as winner of their annual young artist competition, followed by a distinguished '94 appearance as OU's representative artist in a concert tour hosted by The Steinway Society, as well as a chamber performance abroad at The International Chamber Music Festival of Aub, Germany. He is a MaTilDa award winner, a Stanley Hollingsworth scholarship recipient, and an alumnus of the Interlochen summer piano programs.

Licensed as an attorney of Michigan in '98, Matthew practiced law only a short time when in 2001 he attended a Motor City Boogie-Woogie Festival that would transform his life. Awestruck by the performances he saw that evening and discouraged with the practice of law, Matthew left his career as an attorney to become a blues and boogie-woogie performing artist. To get there, Matthew would seek out the help of Detroit's ambassador of boogie, Bob Seeley. A living link to the genre's pioneer artists and particularly Mr. Meade 'Lux' Lewis, Seeley initially refused to teach Matthew. But after a year of prodding and with the recommendation of a longtime Seeley colleague-in-boogie, Michael Przybylski, Seeley would eventually accept Matthew as his pupil.

By 2005 a watershed occurred when Matthew was welcomed to perform at The 11th annual Cincinnati Blues Festival, where he headlined alongside some of the same performers he had first been inspired by. Since then, Matthew has maintained an active performing career as 'The Boogie Woogie Kid,' with notable appearances throughout the mid-west and Michigan including The Sky Hempy Keyboard Performance Series, The Jazz'n on Jefferson Festival, The Woodward Dream Cruise, Borders Books & Music Showcase, and The Milliken Auditorium of Northwestern Michigan University. He has performed two televised concerts for Oak Park Public Television and Clawson TV, has been featured on 'WDRQ Detroit Underground' as well as 'WFYI The Blues House Party,' and has presented educational clinics to many of the area's leading piano pedagogy institutions including, The Oakland Piano Teachers Forum, The Metropolitan Detroit Musician's League, and The Adult Learning Center of Oakland Community College.

Matthew's published works include two self produced CD's called 'Classic Boogie-Woogie' (2005), and 'Boogie Woogie Kid' (2008), as well as two books on the subject called 'The Art of Boogie Woogie' (2007), and 'Blues Preludes' (2008). The first is a scored compendium of 41 boogie-woogie base-lines, and the latter a collection of seven blues-inspired piano pieces designed for the early learner.

In addition to his musical endeavors, Matthew is a published poet and children's book author. His published works include excerpts in 'Episodes of the Norm' (2008) which contains his poem 'boogie woogie man,' written as a dedication to Bob Seeley on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 'Minnie & Melvira,' (2009) a children's story about discovering true friendship that features his father as illustrator, and finally a collaboration with his brother called, 'The Worm & The Caterpillar,' (2009) which carries a message about transformation through self-belief, all of which are available @ Amazon.com.

Finally, Matthew maintains a teaching studio for both Classical and Jazz piano. He is most proud to have been instrumental in the success of two recent pupils attaining both a full and partial Music scholarship respectively to study Music formally at the University of their choice.

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