★2014 Blues Music Awards Nominee - Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year. Marcia's 16th nomination in this category which she's won 5 times in the past 9 years. Also a two-time winner in the best Contemporary Blues - Female Artist category. Marcia has also won Blues Music Awards for best Contemporary Blues Album of the Year for her CDs So Many Rivers and Presumed Innocent
★2013 Living Blues Award winner - Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)
★2012 GRAMMY Nominee for her latest album Roadside Attractions (Best Blues Album), her fifth GRAMMY nomination overall and a very impressive fourth CD in a row of hers to be nominated, following Peace, Love & BBQ (2008), Live! Down The Road (2005) and So Many Rivers (2003). She received an earlier nomination for Sing It! (1998) with Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson. (please see DISCOGRAPHY)
★2012 Blues Music Award Winner - Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year. Marcia has been honored with 5 wins in the last eight years, and a total of 15 nominations, in this category. Marcia has also won best Contemporary Blues - Female Artist twice and has won Blues Music Awards for best Contemporary Blues Album of the Year for her CDs So Many Rivers and Presumed Innocent.
★2013 DownBeat Critics Poll - ranked among the Best Blues Artist or Group
★Louisiana Music Hall of Fame Inductee (April 22, 2012)
★2012 Living Blues Award Winner - Blues Artist of the Year (Female), Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard) and Best Blues Album of 2011 (New Release) for her CD, Roadside Attractions
★2011 Living Blues Award winner for Blues Artist of the Year (Female) and Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)
★Gulf Coast Music Hall Of Fame Inductee (2010)
★Winner of two 2009 Living Blues Readers' Poll Awards for Blues Artist of the Year (Female) and Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard), adding to her wins in the category in 2007 and 2008
★Peace, Love & BBQ debuted at #1 in the Billboard Blues Charts (April 2008)
★Featured in the films Angels Sing (2013) starring Harry Connick Jr. and Willie Nelson, and Piano Blues (2003 - directed by Clint Eastwood)
★Television appearances on Austin City Limits, Late Show With David Letterman, Today Show, CNN, AXS TV and Mountain Stage (PBS)
★Featured on In Performance At The White House with B.B. King and Della Reese, broadcast on PBS (1999)
★Performances on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion, World Café and Whad'Ya Know?, as well as Public Radio International's Studio 360 and the nationally syndicated Mitch Albom Show.
Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise roofs and tear down walls with her infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world. Her exquisite piano playing and passionate, playful vocals fuse New Orleans and Gulf Coast R&B with Austin's deep songwriting tradition into a sound No Depression described as "a little rock, a lot of roll, a pinch of rhythm and a handful of blues."
"A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet" - USA Today
