The legendary blues and roots-rock singer, songwriter and piano player Marcia Ball plays a very special solo concert in the intimate space of the Mainstay in Rock Hall, Maryland on Sunday June 14 at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $25. 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.
Marcia Ball
No one covers the musical the territory between New Orleans and Austin better than Marcia Ball. For 30 years she has blended Texas blues, soul, boogie-woogie, Louisiana swamp ballads, and New Orleans second-line rhythms into her distinctive piano-based roadhouse roots-rock. She’s also a fine singer, songwriter and a first-rate observer of life. Sophisticated and earthy, her piano playing mixes equal parts of Jerry Lee Lewis’ flash and Professor Longhair’s elegant groove and has earned her the Blues Foundations’s award as the 2015 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the year. Her original songs sound like timeless classics and southern soul masterpieces.
The Texas-born, Louisiana-raised musical storyteller has earned worldwide fame for her ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she strolls onto the stage. The sponsorship of Peoples Bank has made this concert possible in The Mainstay’s intimate space with its great piano and fine acoustics.
Ball’s groove-laden New Orleans boogie, deeply soulful ballads and rollicking Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite with music fans all over the world. In 2010, she was inducted into the Gulf Coast Hall Of Fame and in 2012 into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. She’s received a total of six Living Blues Awards and nine Blues Music Awards and has a whopping 42 nominations. She’s received five Grammy Award nominations, including for five of her six previous Alligator albums.
Always known for her songwriting, her most recent recordings “Roadside Attractions” and “The Tattooed Lady and The Alligator Man” are mostly original material.
The Mainstay (Home of Musical Magic) is the friendly informal storefront performing arts center on Rock Hall’s old time Main Street.For information and reservations call the Mainstay at 410-639-9133. More information is also available at the Mainstay’s website https://www.mainstayrockhall.org.
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