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| 'Peace, Love' coming to Windhover Peace, love and barbecue will flow through the Windhover Center for the Arts, 51 Sheboygan St., when Marcia Ball brings her Grammy-nominated music to Fond du Lac. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 8, Ball will take the stage. Ball's CD, "Peace, Love & BBQ, " earned nationwide recognition for her mix of soul fervor and Crescent City Piano, according to a press release. Her latest CD is the fourth released by Alligator Records. Ball has received three Grammy nominations, won seven Blues Music Awards and was voted Female Blues Artist of the Year and Most Outstanding Musician — Piano in the 2009 "Living Blues" readers' poll. Ball wrote or co-wrote eight of the 13 songs on her latest album that features "Texas roadhouse boogie and Louisiana swamp blues, " according to the release. In 2001, Ball joined Alligator Records, teamed with the Rosebud booking agency and released the critically acclaimed "Presumed Innocent, " which took home the 2002 Blues Music Award for Blues Album of the Year. Her follow-up, "So Many Rivers, " was nominated for a Grammy and won the 2004 Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year as well as the Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year. "Peace, Love & BBQ" is her first studio album in four years. She was born in Orange, Texas, in 1949 to a family whose female members all played piano. Ball grew up in the small town of Vinton, La., and began taking piano lessons at age 5, according to her website. She began her solo career in 1974. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Jazz News :: home page |