This year is the 10th Anniversary of the Palladium’s Boogie Woogie Blues Piano Stomp. This year we’re not only celebrating Bob Seeley’s 90th birthday, but we’re bringing back a player from our first year, Ricky Nye, out of Cincinnati.
Ricky puts on a similar concert in Cincy every year and Liz Pennock and lots of our players, also appear there. Here’s a bit about Ricky to get you ready for our big show on Saturday, March 23. Watch this space for features on our other players, Seeley, Eden Brent, and Liz Pennock and Dr. Blues.
For tickets for the show and more info on all the players, just follow this link.
And now here’s Ricky:
Traditional blues, boogie woogie, and classic New Orleans jazz and R&B all come flying from the fingers of Cincinnati, OH pianist and vocalist RICKY NYE. The driving force behind the annual BLUES & BOOGIE PIANO SUMMIT held in Greater Cincinnati since 1999, Ricky has been inducted into the International Boogie Woogie Hall Of Fame, voted “Blues Artist Of The Year 2013 & 2014” in Cincinnati’s CEA Awards, and “Best Local Musician” by CityBeat Magazine’s “Best Of Cincinnati 2013, 2014 & 2018” reader’s poll.
Ricky began his performing career at age twelve with his family’s band, and in his twenties and thirties established working relationships and friendships with Cincinnati blues icons such as Big Ed Thompson, H-Bomb Ferguson and fellow pianists Big Joe Duskin and Pigmeat Jarrett.
Ricky Nye @ Lionel Hampton Club Paris
For twenty years Ricky has maintained notoriety on an international level, performing his infectious blend of American roots music in solo, duo and combo settings in locales such as France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Vienna, England, and Switzerland. Ricky also celebrates a long-time performing and recording collaboration with “The Paris Blues Band”, the very finest purveyors of swingin’ blues and boogie in Paris, France.
“Known for its rollicking, foot-stomping jubilance, the boogie-woogie sound erupted from the American South during the late 1920s. This piano-centric subgenre of the jazz tradition drew its structural elements from the blues and spirituals, but introduced an intoxicating rhythmic complexity that inspired generations of young dancers. Ricky Nye is one of the nation’s leading players and preservationists of boogie-woogie, stunning audiences with unmatched authenticity, virtuosic speed and playful arrangements”- Vail Jazz
Inducted into the International Boogie Woogie Hall Of Fame 2013
Voted Best Blues Artist in CityBeat Magazine’s 2014 & 2013 CEA Awards
Voted Best Local Musician in CityBeat Magazine’s “Best Of Cincinnati” 2018, 2014 & 2013 Reader’ Poll
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