Marcia Ball

Over the years Cambridge has brought us some absolutely scintillating blues performances and this year looks like being no exception, thanks to the only UK festival appearance of raucous, Texas roadhouse blues performer Marcia Ball. Well I say Texas, but she throws more than a little  Louisiana swamp, from where she grew up pop into an already hot mix.
It's been said of Marcia that she got some of the spirt of Jerry Lee(Lewis) in her veins becuase of the way she's been known to attack a piano. An instrument that all of the girls in her family learned to play. Having listened to her grandmother's music collection for a number of years, Marcia was late coming to the blues, waiting until she reached the right old age of 13 and hasn't looked back since. She's got a string of critical and commercially successful, award winning albums and a stage presence that others would kill for.
Whilst she's been cutting albums now for over thirty years she has managed to maintain a fresh edge to her sound both live and on record. A hot sunny day and some blistering blues, it's like it's made to be together.