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 Anthony Geraci
wins the 2023 Blues Music Award for Instrumentalist-Piano/Pinetop
Perkins Piano Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN.
Anthony Geraci’s Seventeen Blues Music Awards
nominations reflects four decades of musical excellence both in
studio and onstage. Anthony won the Award in 2021 too. His band
The Boston Blues All-Stars were nominated for Band of the Year
in 2019, 2021 and 2023.
His recent
recording Blues Called My Name (Blue Heart) debuted at
#1 on The Living Blues Radio Chart. Anthony is an original
member of Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, and Ronnie Earl and the
Broadcasters. Geraci has recorded extensively with both groups.
Other Artists Anthony has recorded with include a host of iconic
traditional blues artists and leading contemporary acts. Anthony has
recorded with Lazy Lester, Big Walter Horton, Carey Bell, John Brim,
Snooky Pryor, Odetta, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugaray Rayford, Kenny
and Raful Neal, Debbie Davies, Welch/Ledbetter, Big Jack Johnson,
Kilborn Alley, G.E. Smith and many more.
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2023 Blues Foundation
Blues Music Award Winner
Instrumentalist-Piano
2021 Blues Foundation
Blues Music Award Winner
Instrumentalist-Piano
Band of the Year Nomination
2021 BMA Winner-Piano
15 BMA Nominations 2016-2021
Grammy Nomination
Super Harps
(Telarc)
Ronnie Earl shared
this praise: "Anthony has been contributing to this music for
many years, and his new album illuminates the many colors, shades,
and styles of the blues. Anthony is very inspiring, and I love his
dedication to the old masters like Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, and
Big Maceo Merriweather." "Anthony Geraci is a beast on all levels
and may well be the finest keyboardist in roots music today." Mike
O’Cull-Rock & Blues Muse.
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“Hand
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“Everything I Do Is Wrong”
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"Tutti Frutti Booty" |
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Blues Called My Name (Blue
Heart Records) 2022
"All of the new songs are originals
while the album is dedicated to
the memory of keyboardists Gene Taylor, Mike Finnigan
(Phantom Blues Band,
and Bonnie Raitt), and the spirit of the late great
James Harman.
It just doesn't get any better than this" ~
Richard
Ludmerer, MAKING A
SCENE
#1 on
Living Blues Radio Chart, June 2022
#2 Roots Music
Radio Blues Chart
Worldwide airplay in Europe, Australia and Japan |
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Daydreams In Blue (Shining Stone) 2020. This electrifying
performance of Anthony’s thirteen original compositions
features extraordinary guitarists: Monster Mike Welch and
Walter Trout.
“Geraci’s dozen songs
(Daydreams In Blue) offer a picture of a time when the
piano was THE featured instrument. Geraci’s knowledge of
that history is obvious. As with everything here, Geraci
is spot on, never playing an indulgent note.” - Art
Tipaldi, Blues Music Magazine
#1 on Roots Music Report Blues Album Chart
#1 on Living Blues Radio Chart August/September
#4 On Billboard Blues Albums Chart |
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Why Did You Have To Go (Shining Stone) 2018. Featuring: Sugaray Rayford, Sugar Ray Norcia, Michelle "Evil Gal"
Willson, Ronnie Earl, Kid Ramos, Monster Mike Welch, Troy
Gonyea, Michael Mudcat Ward, Willie J. Campbell, Jimi Bott
and others.
Nominated for Six 2019 Blues Music Awards
Song of the Year - "Angelina, Angelina” (Geraci)
Band of the Year - Anthony Geraci & The Boston Blues
All-Stars
Instrumentalist-Piano, Pinetop Perkins Award (4 years in a
row)
Traditional Blues Male Artist
Album of the Year - Why Did You Have To Go (Shining Stone)
Traditional Blues Album - Why Did You Have To Go
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Fifty Shades Of
Blue (Delta Groove) Featuring: Sugar Ray Norcia,
Michelle "Evil Gal" Willson, Darrel Nulisch, Toni Lynn
Washington, Monster Mike Welch, Michael Mudcat Ward,
Marty Richards, Neil Gouvin.
Nominated for BMA
Album, Traditional Album, Song of the Year for the title
track. Piano too!
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Pianist, Hammond organist and composer Anthony Geraci
was born in New Haven, Conn. in 1954. His interest in
playing piano began at age four when he told his parents
“I want a piano!” Kind of an odd request when most kids
want a new baseball glove or bicycle. His parents
weren’t musical-not even a record player at their house-
but they always supported their son’s undeniable passion
for music. They soon bought a Kimball Grand Piano that
his mother paid 4 dollars a week to own. Lessons at the
Neighborhood School of Music which was affiliated with
Yale University soon followed. At around the age of
sixteen he befriended a fellow musician, Ed Cherry at
high school. They soon began listening to music together
after school and one day Ed played a Jimmy Rogers
recording, Chicago Bound that literally changed his
life. Ed went on to be Dizzy Gillespie’s guitarist for
many years.
New Haven was rich as far as listening to and seeing
major music artists, and NYC was only a few
hours away by train. Seeing Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and
Willie Dixon was part of his blues education that could
only be learned by seeing these great artists fist hand.
Years later Anthony had the opportunity to play piano
with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Chuck Berry,
Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rodgers and
many more-something a sixteen year old budding blues
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Anthony has recorded
with Big Walter Horton, Ronnie Earl, Big Jack Johnson, Zora Young, Sugaray Rayford, Debbie Davies, Kenny Neal
and many more great Blues Artists. Anthony graduated
from the Berklee College of Music with B.A. Degree, and
a M.A. from Skidmore College. His 2015 release, Fifty
Shades of Blue, on Delta Groove Records has been met with acclaimed
reviews and earned multiple Blues Music Award nominations from the
Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN.
Nominations include: Best Song-for the
title track, Best Album, and Best Traditional Blues Album. Anthony
also received an individual nomination for the Pinetop Perkins Piano
Player of the Year Award. Fifty Shades Of Blue was also nominated
for Traditional Blues Album of the year by Blues Blast Magazine, and
was ranked as one of the top 50 Blues recordings of 2015 by Living
Blues Magazine, and earned a 4 Star view in Downbeat Magazine.
In 2019 Why Did You Have To Go (Shining Stone) received nominations
by the Blues Foundation Blues Music Awards for Album of the Year,
Traditional Album of the Year, Song of the Year-"Angelina,
Angelina", as well as individual nominations: Pinetop Perkins Piano
Award, Traditional Male Blues Artist and Band of the Year-An
unprecedented 6 personal Nominations!
2021-Anthony wins the Instrumentalist-Piano from the Blues
Foundation/Blues Music Awards Memphis, TN. Anthony Geraci and The
Boston Blues All-Stars are nominated for Band of the Year.
New recording Daydreams In Blue (Shining Stone) debuts at #1 on The
Living Blues Radio chart-#1 Roots Music Report-Blues. |
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Photo, Marilyn
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Photo by Marilyn Stringer |
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Publicity &
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BOOK Anthony Geraci in US, UK and Canada
Jim Nestor Agency
Jim Nestor,
Agent
954-588-5144
booking@JimNestor.com |
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European Bookings
Fred Klee
Fred@moonboytalent.com
cell + 32 4779166397 desk + 32 11 325350
Diestersesteenweg 11 , 3583 Paal-Beringen, Belgium
AnthonyGeraciBlue.com
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