Blues Piano Night at The Zeppelin Room

Overview

One of the most popular events of the year. Featuring five different players, offering different takes on the many styles of blues piano. This world-class multi-award winning line-up is ready to bring you all the blues piano goodness they can muster!

Jan Preston, known as Australasia’s Queen of Boogie Piano, has a reputation as an astonishing piano player with a rich resonant voice who is a magnetic live performer.

Don Hopkins - Oozing the barrelhouse, good-time fun of a blues party night, with the emphasis on New Orleans piano styles, a Don Hopkins performance will most likely get you singing along, dancing or just having a good time to his music.

Carolyn ‘Pinecone’ Packer is a highly sought-after jazz performer, deeply imbued in jazz, deep blues, New Orleans swing, and funky Latin grooves, with decades-long expertise in songwriting and performing to her credit.

John Black - John worked full-time as a musician in Sydney before moving to Canberra in the mid-80s to lecture at the School of Music. Today he works as a piano player, singer, arranger and composer.

Ali Penney plays her brand of Blues, Jazz, Soul and Boogie at festivals across Australia. She loves West Coast Jump, Swing and New Orleans music and she has just won Favourite Keyboard Player in the Sydney Blues Society 2024 Awards.