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The Boogie Woogie Kid! @ Howell Opera House 1/27/12
The Boogie Woogie Kid! If you don’t know what boogie woogie music sounds like, think of an evil villain with a ridiculous mustache tying a damsel in distress to railroad tracks. The music in the background is played on the piano usually with a jaunty, upbeat, melody and elements of dooming suspense. Or, as Matthew Ball aka The Boogie Woogie Kid! describes it, “happy blues.” Howell’s Opera House swelled in numbers on Friday, January 27th. Set in a dimly lit room of icicle lights, Matthew Ball on piano and Victor Pruner accompanying on drums, took the crowd back to the early 20th century, when boogie woogie was in its prime.…