Jan Preston can best be described as Australias “Queen of the boogie woogie piano.” Her stunning ability as a boogie, honky tonk and ragtime piano player, is matched by a richly resonant  voice and a joyful and communicative stage personality.

Jan is enormously popular on the festival circuit, having played more than 40 festivals throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in the past 3 years. (View festival list).

She has won 4 Best Female Blues Artist and Blues Artist of the Year Awards, is a regular ABC and RNZ radio performer, and has sold out concerts from the tip of Australia to the very South of New Zealand in main centres and tiny regional towns.

Jan has a way of fully engaging the audience in her shows, and her mastery of the boogie woogie, barrelhouse and honky tonk piano style, leaves listeners in raptures.

In her own words Jan says “I was born in a very small town in a remote part of New Zealand where there was no entertainment so people had to make their own. My earliest memories were of singalongs at the piano to the boogie woogie and honky tonk rhythm, so even when I went on to study classical music, I still had the sounds of barrelhouse in my ears. Later I discovered Professor Longhair, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, as well as many lesser known women players such as Julie Lee, Hadda Brooks, Katie Webster, and Winifred Atwell. I am so grateful to all these wonderful pianists for creating a stylistic tradition I am delighted to pass on in my lifetime. In a world which is, at times, very sad, there is nothing so joyful and uplifting as the boogie woogie piano beat.”