DEANNA BOGART BIOGRAPHY

Blues music award winner and multi instrumentalist singer songwriter Deanna Bogart has been a successful bandleader for over twenty years. Playing dazzling piano and soulful saxophone, her eclectic streak and style of adventurous “blusion” has garnered her numerous awards and accolades while touring throughout the US and abroad. DB is an avid educator/mentor and has played for our troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Egypt which included performances at Cairo University, the Cairo Opera House and a historic concert at the pyramids.
“blusion....it all grows out of the blues...just doesn't always end there....” db

2008/2009/2010 BMA’s Horn Instrumentalist of the Year
22 Wammies (Washington area music awards)
 
Items of note:  “Prairie Home Companion”, Keyboard Magazine, Jazziz, the Washington Post, Blues on the Nile Tour.....
 
"... Bogart reveals the intersections between genres that have fed off one another for decades. "
-- Blues Revue 

"...possesses a gift for approaching blues, soul and R&B material with warmth and firmness. Her originals here, in particular the beautifully sung, intelligent ballads, "Blue By Night" and "Tender Days," sound as fresh as if she'd magically plucked them out of the air. "
-- Downbeat

 

The press is equally effusive. Cashbox called Bogart a “butt-kickin’ barrelhouse player that could give a good chase to old Jerry Lee.” Blues Revue gushed that “A big part of what makes Deanna Bogart such a delight is her vivacious, charismatic live show. Whether displaying dazzling technical skills at the keyboard or playing soulful tenor sax, the ensemble sound Bogart and her band is skintight.” The Washington Post raved about “her two-fisted turns on piano that radiate plenty of energy and momentum!“ Music Monthly delights in Bogart's ability “to blend savvy street smarts with an earthy sensuality that is spontaneous from the very minute her music jumps from the speakers.” The Baltimore Sun celebrates how Bogart “plays the keyboard and sings like nothing you've ever heard–but should! Her vocal style is as full of vitality as her piano playing–both are sexy and deep, with unstoppable strength and unflagging energy!”
Bogart herself explains that, “It became clear to me a long time ago that my goal was to be the best player I could be, and that on my death bed at 107, with people I love gathered around me, my last words would be ‘Man, what a good gig last night!”

Beyond all the superlatives, The Washington Post may have best described Deanna Bogart with three words: Luster, Sophistication, and Soul. This is a one-of-a-kind artist, whose music veers from the depths of the blues to the playful heights of swing, from the subtleties of jazz to the hard-won grit of soul. She brings to her music everything it means to be a woman–everything it means to be human–and delivers it to every line of music played, every phrase of lyrics written and sung, until the pure truth of her sound and message pierces the heart of her audience. Once you hear her–once you feel her–you will never be quite the same.

The Deanna Bogart Band includes Mike Aubin on drums, Scott Ambush on bass, Dan Leonard on Guitar.