I love singing. Whether it be
Disney songs, RnB, Broadway showtunes, power ballads, I’m happiest when I’m
warbling along to music (and often getting the lyrics wrong in the process).
Piano Works allows you to do this to live piano music, along with a percussive and jazz band, and a lead singer, whilst dancing in a night-club-style venue. That was
my Friday night sorted, then.
The band played their instruments
really well, with flamboyance from the electric guitars when the occasion
called for it, and more nuanced accompanying for other songs. The band shrewdly
rotated singers depending on the flavour of the song. Sometimes, as was the
case with Kanye West’s Goldigger, more than one person sang at a time. They had
a fantastic female singer who belted out How Far I’ll Go from Moana. Given I
have recently just watched Moana and the song is fresh in my mind, that in
itself made that Friday one of the best nights out I’ve had in a long time.
The song choices at Piano Works
were on point. They played Uptown Funk, Piano Man, American Boy, Grace Kelly…
basically, crowd pleasers. And the crowd was very pleased. Here’s a clip of
their performance of What Makes You Beautiful. The One Direction song is only my fourth favourite of all-time, so I had a whale of a time dancing to it!
