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RICK DEMPSEY (top photo) and DEANNA BOGART (above) have teamed up to create "Home Run Holiday."
Rick Dempsey and the Deanna Bogart Band have teamed up to make a new Christmas CD, “Home Run Holiday.”
Deanna Bogart is known for her musical flair on saxophone and piano.
Rick Dempsey is the former Baltimore Orioles catcher and 1983 World Series MVP, and Deanna Bogart is a multi-talented saxophone and piano player. Her band has performed at Maryland dances and concerts for years. I don’t know if Mr. Dempsey shares Ms. Bogart’s musical talent, but the catcher and the band leader are both flamboyant Maryland personalities.
Home Run Holiday features three Dempsey-Bogart duets, new arrangements, and Christmas classics. The CD was released on Halloween and is available from VistaRecords for $20. and $9 shipping. You can hear music from the CD at the VistaRecords site. (Correction: The price is $20 and shipping is included in the U.S. and Canada. The $9 shipping fee is for overseas orders only. Maryland On My Mind regrets the error.)
A CD release party, featuring Rick Dempsey’s world premier performance with the Deanna Bogart Band, is scheduled for Nov. 15 at Serafino’s Italian Restaurant in Ellicott City. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at VistaRecords.
Deanna Bogart’s music is a fusion of boogie-woogie, contemporary blues, country music, and jazz, according to the Deanna Bogart Band Web site. Maybe Bogart and Dempsey will create a new Maryland musical genre. “Baseball Blues” could become a regional phenomenon. If you can dance to the beat, we’ll call it “Home Run Swing.”
I’m not making any of this up. Maryland On My Mind is committed to bringing you important Maryland cultural news that you just can’t find in the MSM or on other Maryland blogs. Stay tuned for our next post, which will have news on a new book by a Maryland author about the Chesapeake Bay. — John Hayden
Carol
November 16, 2009
Rick and Deanna will be performing at a fundraiser for the Albert P. Close Foundation on January 16, 2010 at the Bel Air Armory in Bel Air, MD. Teens make thousands of decisions every day. One wrong one can ruin their life…we are working to change that. Please join us for an evening of jazz & blues with Rick and Deanna. It’s going to be a great night. For more information visit closefoundation.org.
Nancy Urban
December 5, 2009
We saw Rick Dempsey at the NRG meeting in Pikesville yesterday 12/04/09. At the end of the meeting we asked Rick if he would please let us take a picture of him with my grandson — his other grandmother is a BIG fan of the Orioles and we wanted to have the picture for her. Unfortunately he said yes but then turned his back on us and made no effort to come back to us. We waited more then 15 minutes. Finally we just left thinking that we were a lot less important, (and most likely we were but he miss a good PR oportunity) then the man he was talking with. It would have taken less then 30 seconds for us to get this picture. This experience left us with negative feelings about Mr. Dempsey.
Gary Domingos
February 7, 2014
Nice to be cruising the internet and coming across one of my photos (the wild colored one above). Love Deanna’s work and that she’s being recognized for the true talent and wonderful person she is.