ANTHONY GERACI & THE BOSTON BLUES ALL-STARS

Get ready for contemporary piano driven Blues by award-winning musician, Anthony Geraci. The real fun comes when Geraci ignites the players in his band, The Boston Blues All-Stars rolling through modern and traditional blues numbers to bring the audience to their feet!

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Pianist, Hammond organist, and composer Anthony Geraci was born in New Haven, CT 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.