Deanna Bogart brings her dazzling keyboards, soulful saxophone, smoky vocals and bluesy songwriting to the Mainstay in Rock Hall, Maryland on Saturday June 20 at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $20. Reservations are a must.
For information and reservations call 410-639-9133. Information is also available at the Mainstay’s website https://www.mainstayrockhall.org.
Perennially popular with a knack for engaging her audiences, Deanna Bogart combines boogie-woogie, rocking contemporary blues, country and jazz into a splendid blend she calls “blusion.” In defining it, she says, “…it all grows out of the blues… it just doesn’t always end there…”
Her fusion/blusion is spontaneous, sophisticated, fearless and fun and has garnered her three consecutive Blues Music Awards for Horn Instrumentalist of the Year and an endorsement contract with Rico Reeds. She has won more than 20 Wammies, the music awards for the Washington, D.C. region where she used to live.
Long a favorite in this area, at Rock Hall FallFest and at the Mainstay, this is now a rare trip East as she is now based on the West coast. She will be joined by Mike Aubin on drums and Eric Scott on bass.
Born in Detroit, Bogart spent her early years in Phoenix and New York City, climbing on any available piano bench to plunk and play with uncanny panache. As a child, she was “gently removed” from the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for playing piano by ear instead of learning to read music.
While in middle school, she yearned to play the saxophone. Typical of those times though, she was told, “Girls play the clarinet, not the sax.” Fortunately that didn’t slow her down. One of her most popular numbers is her own song, “Still the Girl in the Band.” Her most recent recording is “Just a Wish Away,” recorded in a studio near New Orleans and released on Blind Pig Records.
The Mainstay (Home of Musical Magic) is the friendly informal storefront performing arts center on Rock Hall’s old time Main Street.
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