Piano man Ricky Nye admits there was no “grand design” when he started his Blues and Boogie Piano Summit 15 years ago. He was simply carrying out what he sees as the highest calling for those into the ...

The Ann Arbor District Library is hosting boogie woogie musician Matthew Ball, also known as the Motor City Boogie Woogie Kid, Tuesday, May 20 for a free one-hour piano concert. Boogie woogie is a ...

Clay Swafford would spend an hour at a time working on just the left-hand patterns. Listening to tracks from blues albums again and again, trying to learn by-ear the hip-shaking boogie-woogie-style of ...