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Barrelhouse Bonni:

?Barrelhouse Bonni? McKeown?s blues piano, singing and songwriting style echoes back to the upright pianos in the juke joints and barrelhouses of the South, and the Bessie Smith era of vintage 1930s blues. She travels between Chicago and her home state of West Virginia, taking the blues to concerts, classes, parties, senior homes, and festivals in a solo, teaching team, or piano-horn duo.
Bonni doesn?t just sing the blues; true to the tradition of this community music, she involves the audience. For seniors, she includes a campfire and barbershop sing-along of early 20th century favorites. She has taught blues history and music to groups varying from elementary students at Austin Town Hall on the West Side of Chicago, and Charleston WV?s inner-city Piedmont School, to seniors at Charleston?s FestivALL Elderhostel. In 2007 and 2008, she organized a Sunday Blues Ladies Brunch series at Junior?s Lounge on Chicago?s Maxwell Street, featuring up-and-coming blues women with traditional Maxwell Street musicians as guests.



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