Coffee House Live @ St. Andrew's -- Ezra Charles: The Story of Boogie Woogie

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Coffee House Live @ St. Andrew's — Ezra Charles. EZRA CHARLES presents… The Story of Boogie Woogie Thursday, June 19, 2014.  6:30pm. Free live music & arts in the heart of West U in a comfortable intimate family-friendly atmosphere. A community outreach program of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. 5308 Buffalo Spdwy. Hou TX 77005.

Ezra has a new presentation called "The Story of Boogie Woogie" that he will be showcasing in several venues. It's an evening of demonstrations of everybody's favorite piano music.

Find out where Boogie Woogie came from, why it originated, and what makes it different from every other musical form. Plenty of examples of the best of classic pieces, interspersed with stories of his musical journey through the world of piano masters.

If you play piano, he'll show you how you can get started learning Boogie Woogie; if you don't, you'll thoroughly enjoy a toe-tapping evening!

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Singer/songwriter Ezra Charles is among Texas' top piano players, winning the Houston Press Readers' Poll seven times.

At 14 he played with Johnny & Edgar Winter in his hometown of Beaumont TX. Moving to Houston, he founded Thursday's Children, widely regarded among the most influential Sixties Texas bands. Studying to be a blues piano master, he was mentored by Leon Russell, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Professor Longhair.

Along the way he invented the Helpinstill Piano Pickup, an amplification system now used worldwide.