Music-Style: Blues  

MULTIPLE AWARD WINNER

2019, 2021, & 2023

BLUES MUSIC AWARDS

"BAND OF THE YEAR " NOMINEES

GRAMMY  Award Nominee, 2x-Blues Music Award   Winner

 

17x-Blues Music Award Nominated Keyboardist  &

Hammond Organist

 

 

 

"You’re one hell of a piano player.” - B.B King

 

Anthony R. Geraci is an American blues and jazz pianist, organist, singer and composer.

 

He is a two-time Blues Music Award winner (BMA's) Instrumentalist-Piano/ Pinetop Perkins Piano Award. He has 17 personal Blues Music Awards and over 40 BMA's with other artists such as Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters (original member), Sugar Ray and the Bluetones (original member), Monster Mike Welch, Mike Leadbetter and the Proven Ones.

 

In a career spanning over 40 years, Geraci has shared the stage with legendary musicians such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Chuck Berry and Big Mama Thornton. He has made numerous recordings with top-class artists such as Kenny Neal, Odetta, Big Walter Horton, John Primer, Bob Corritore, Tas Cru, Debbie Davis, Radio Kings, Duke Robillard and the Pleasure Kings, Otis Grand and many more.

 

The album Super Harps (1999) (Telarc) was nominated for a Grammy. He has played alongside James Cotton, Charle Musselwhite, Billy Branch and Sugar Ray Norcia.

His critically acclaimed 2015 release "Fifty Shades of Blues" (Delta Groove Records) received multiple Blues Music Award nominations (Best Song, Best Album and Best Traditional Blues Album). It was ranked as one of the 50 best blues recordings of 2015 by Living Blues Magazine and received a 4-star rating in Downbeat Magazine.

 

In 2019, "Why Did You Have To Go" (Shining Stone) received nominations for the Blues Music Award in the categories Album of the Year, Traditional Album of the Year, Song of the Year (Angelina, Angelina), as well as individual nominations: Pinetop Perkins Piano Award, an unprecedented six personal nominations!

 

In 2021, Anthony won the Instrumentalist Piano Blues Music Award. He won the award again in 2023.

 

"Tears In My Eyes", the brand new album from the two-time Blues Music Award winner, follows his highly acclaimed first release on Blue Heart Records, "Blues Called My Name", which debuted at #1 on the Living Blues Radio Charts.

 

In total, Anthony Geraci has released 9 albums to date.

 

Geraci is considered one of the best contemporary blues and jazz musicians of our time.

 

 

Press quote:

 

""Geraci is one of the better instrumentalists in the blues world today.”

- Bill Mitchell, Blues Bytes

 

“Geraci offers a picture of a time when the piano was THE featured instrument. Geraci’s knowledge of that history is obvious.”

- Art Tipaldi, Blues Music Magazine

 

"A stalwart on the New England blues scene for decades as a key member of both Sugar Ray & the Bluetones and Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, keyboardist Anthony Geraci continues to deliver stellar work as a bandleader."

- Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine

 

Anthony Geraci is a master of blues styles

- Jim White,  Blues Road House

 

Wer gerne eine Reise durch die verschiedenen Farben, Schattierungen und Stile des Blues unternehmen will,

hat mit Geraci und diesem Album den idealen Führer an der Seite.

Karl Leitner, bluesnews

 

“Anthony Geraci is a beast on all levels and may well be the finest keyboardist in roots music today.”

- Mike O'Cull ,  Rock and Blues Muse

 

 

 

Availability:      on request (booking lead time 6 weeks)
Location:          Clubs, Festivals
Requirements: Hotel (Travel Party 5-8, depending on the budget),
                          Catering, local PA

Price:                on request