THE QUEEN OF BOOGIE, & THE KING OF BLUES - JAN PRESTON & PHIL MANNING FRIDAY 18TH JULY

18 July, 2008 (19:00) | Gigs, Other Events

JAN PRESTON & PHIL MANNING 

HARMONY ROW VINEYARD
FRIDAY JULY 18TH at

HARMONY ROW VINEYARD

(LESS THAN AN HOUR FROM THE CITY)
362 PIPER’S CREEK  - PASTORIA RD PASTORIA 

 

Dinner & Show preferred seating $45 Show Only $20
Bookings Dennis :Ph (03) 54235286 or 0400 804855

http://www.janpreston.com

Jan Preston

 

When the Queen of Boogie Piano joins up with one of the Greatest Blues Guitarists Australia has ever seen, the result is electrifying!

Jan Preston and Phil Manning make an extraordinary musical connection, and their shows together this year have left audiences enthralled. This piano and guitar combination, so rarely heard, challenges the early recordings of Eric Clapton and John Mayall.

Jan Preston can best be described as Australias “Queen of the boogie woogie piano.” Her stunning ability as a boogie, honky tonk and ragtime piano player, is matched by a richly resonant  voice and a joyful and communicative stage personality.

Jan is enormously popular on the festival circuit, having played more than 40 festivals throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in the past 3 years.

She has won 4 Best Female Blues Artist and Blues Artist of the Year Awards, is a regular ABC and RNZ radio performer, and has sold out concerts from the tip of Australia to the very South of New Zealand in main centres and tiny regional towns.

Jan has a way of fully engaging the audience in her shows, and her mastery of the boogie woogie, barrelhouse and honky tonk piano style, leaves listeners in raptures.

In her own words Jan says “I was born in a very small town in a remote part of New Zealand where there was no entertainment so people had to make their own. My earliest memories were of singalongs at the piano to the boogie woogie and honky tonk rhythm, so even when I went on to study classical music, I still had the sounds of barrelhouse in my ears. Later I discovered Professor Longhair, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, as well as many lesser known women players such as Julie Lee, Hadda Brooks, Katie Webster, and Winifred Atwell. I am so grateful to all these wonderful pianists for creating a stylistic tradition I am delighted to pass on in my lifetime. In a world which is, at times, very sad, there is nothing so joyful and uplifting as the boogie woogie piano beat.”

 

http://www.philmanning.com.au/

 Phil Manning

One of Australia’s best known guitarists, Phil Manning has a single handedly turned more Australians onto the Blues than any other performer. Many Australians know him as a member of Chain the legendary blues band whose contribution to Australian music and the development of the blues in this country is unparalleled. . He has featured at all the major venues throughout the country, and the list of international artists he has toured with, performed alongside or recorded with is impressive.  This experience spans three decades at the top of his field. His skillful touch and great passion for the blues have kept him musically progressive, always prepared to interest himself in new musical ideas whilst maintaining his stylistic purpose. The result is a gifted songwriter with an awesome guitar technique.