Concert EventsBlues at the Orinda - Queen of Boogie Woogie, Wendy DeWittSunday, August 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Queen of Boogie Woogie, Wendy DeWitt will be kicking off our Blues at the Orinda Blues concert series!
From Seattle to Paris Wendy spreads the gospel of Chicago based blues piano and boogie woogie. She’s well steeped inthe stylings of Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim and Albert Ammons - the greats of boogie and blues, and honed her skills working with contemporary artists Steve Freund,Otis Rush and the late Hank Ballard who’s love of the bluesshowed in all of his rock classics.
Wendy has appeared with Charlie Musselwhite, Otis Rush,and Etta James and has been featured at Berkeley’s historicvenue, Freight and Salvage. She performed at the CincinnatiBlues Fest at the internationally acclaimed Arches Pianostage, headed to Boston with Hank Ballard and theMidnighters for a performance at the Boston Symphony Halland played before a sold out audience at the San DiegoMuseum of Art with Hadda Brooks in what proved to be one ofHadda’s last shows. Wendy has performed at many majorfestivals including Peer in Belgium, San Francisco BluesFest, and Monterey Blues, and Jazz Fests.
Wendy puts on a high energy show. Material is either written by Wendy or reinvented in her styleand delivered with passion. Wendy is afraid of no guitar player and has opened solo for Jimmy Thackery and the drivers and Deborah Coleman.
Along with her busy performing schedule Wendy is the producer of the Queens of Boogie Woogie shows around California and the Blues Piano Orgy productions in the SanFrancisco Bay Area. Songs from Wendy’s six albums areheard on radio around the world and she has been a frequent guest on the nationally syndicated West Coast Live.