One of Europe’s most authentic and spirited blues and jazz piano players, Dom Pipkin, is on the road with his acclaimed one man show - a rollercoaster ride through the rich world of New Orleans, featuring astonishing stories and some truly breath-taking piano.
And he heading to Milton Keynes...
Brothels and barrelhouses, love, sex and tragedy, chasing the ‘rushin’ lady’. Voodoo spells and Mardi Gras Queens, the colourful lives of Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair and the drug-fuelled funk and psychedelia of Dr John and James Booker are conjured up in all their technicolour glory in their rawest setting –a man, a piano, a glass of bourbon and panama hat.
Pipkin has performed extensively in New Orleans, and shared stages with international icons Allen Toussaint, Dr John, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.
Grammy award winner Jon Cleary invites him to jam onstage whenever he’s in the Crescent City. His experiences are real and resonating.
His work has ranged from teaching Jonathan Ross the piano to privately entertaining the film director Stanley Kubrick, and performing to the opening committee of the 2012 London Olympics.
He has recorded and toured with Paul Weller, Paloma Faith, Ray Davis, Morcheeba, David Byrne, Guy Barker, Ella Eyre, John Newman, Pee Wee Ellis and Laura Mvula. He also has dozens of radio and TV appearances to his credit and is in constant demand on the capital's live music scene.
A list like that has nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with talent.
Dom is a lively and passionate player, who takes his audience to a magical world of New Orleans piano.
He is the UK’s best-kept secret, but for how much longer he will remain a secret?
That's hard to say.
Tickets to see him at the Wavendon venue on Thursday (October 12) are booking here now.
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