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Matthew Ball, aka the boogie woogie kid, is "one of Michigan's premier blues & boogie-woogie pianists." - The Holland Sentinel. With a performance history that includes everything from symphony appearances to blues festivals, this young man is already at the helm of an enviable performance career.

Formally degreed in classical study, Ball gave up that devotion after attending a hometown boogie-woogie festival. In just four years, he was sharing the stage with iconic piano blues & boogie-woogie veterans.

Called "the Gen-X arrival to this uniquely american art-form," - The Ann Arbor News. Matthew is defining a new generation's contribution to this treasured American tradition.

Matthew Ball has quickly become one of Detroit's finest Blues & Boogie-Woogie pianists. The only pupil of the legendary Bob Seeley - hall of famer and direct disciple of Boogie's originator Meade 'Lux' Lewis - Matthew is part of a legacy that traces back to the earliest roots of these uniquely American art-forms.

Classically trained, Matthew became an accomplished pianist early in life. He debuted in his first symphony appearances before age 21, and before the end of his undergraduate study had been welcomed abroad for performances in Germany. After completing a double Bachelor degree in Music & History, and receiving the coveted 'MaTilDa' award, he left Oakland University, and Music, to pursue a law degree at the University of Detroit. By 1998 he was a licensed attorney of Michigan.

Practicing law and deeply dissatisfied, Matthew attended a 2001 Motor City Boogie-Woogie Festival that would become the inspiration for his transformation into one of today's finest purveyors of the American piano playing tradition called blues & boogie-woogie. By 2005, at the Cincinnati Blues Fest, he was headlining with some of the same performers that he watched play at the 2001 festival.

Today he is positioned himself in the midst of a career that is sure to make a defining contribution to the fading art of boogie-woogie & blues piano - meet the Boogie Woogie Kid @ www.boogiewoogiekid.com!