This is not a new phenomenon - candidates showing their talents to endear themselves to the electorate. Does it work? Do you end up liking them more because of it? Let's see..
Harry Truman and Richard Nixon showed they could play the piano, and they were pretty darn good actually. Her...
I sound like a carnival announcer, I know. It's 100 times better than that , I can assure you. Daria van den Bercken is a Dutch pianist-extraordinare. I happened to catch this on a TED TALK episode. Would you like to see something outrageous?
I've been playing the piano since I was about 6 years old. I still don't really think I play it correctly, and that's using ALL of my digits. You have to see this kid. Talk about overcoming the odds!
I've been trying really hard to collect piano knick knacks over the years. I have bits and pieces here and there at home, but my party plannin' machine, Dorrie found the mother load for my birthday.
I was working on my Vatican blog when producer Jeff Levack stormed in, excitingly announcing "Richie! here's a subject for yo to blog about-Billy Joel's Piano Man album was released on this day back in 1973". And that does excite me for sure. But what is Billy's connection to country music? Glad you asked!
Not sure if you know this or not (or care!), but before I got into this crazy little thing called radio, I was a piano bar player! I played some wacky places, but never like this!