A Big Helping Of New Orleans Funk With A Side Of Blues...
Keith Hollis and the PO' BOYZ are a high energy New Orleans funk Hammond Organ Trio. Lead by rising Hammond Organ star Keith Hollis with solid guitar and vocal support from New Orleans native Rodney ‘BR’ Millon and rounded out by funky drummer Sean Mannion. The PO' BOYZ explore the sounds and rhythms of New Orleans with their explosive blend of funk grooves, second line bayou jams and ripping down-home blues. The PO' BOYZ will keep you up and dancing all night with their exciting performances and feel good original songs. Their original songs visit gospel, soul, jazz, funk and blues genres all melding together though the awesome sounds of the Hammond Organ. Keith Hollis and the PO’ BOYZ are a delightful addition to any funk, groove or jamming jazz bill. The PO' BOYZ tour with a real Hammond B-3 and leslie on both coasts.
Keith Hollis and the PO' BOYZ have created a nice buzz and demand for themselves in the jam band and funk scene since their 2005, pre-Katrina, CD release “High On The Bayou.” The PO’ BOYZ played their first show to a packed house on Frenchman Street during the 2005 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Since then the PO’ BOYZ have opened for some great artists including San Diego’s On The One and a recent Headline tour of California with Soulive sax player Sam Kininger in April of 2006. The PO’ BOYZ have also headlined major rooms across the Northeast including the Chicken Box in Nantucket, MA., the Ale House in Portland, ME., Harpers Ferry in Boston, MA., as well as a sold out Boston show with star Hammond Organist Marco Benevento from the Due with Joe Russo. The PO' BOYZ are booked to return to Northern California in March in 2007 open for sax star Karl Denson and Fully Loaded at San Francisco's rocking Boom Boom Room. The PO’ BOYZ are planning a Colorado run in April 2007 as well as a return to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in May 2007

Soulful Hammond B-3 Organist, Pianist & Composer

Keith Hollis has toured Europe on Hammond organ backing Grammy Award Winner Solomon Burke . Keith has performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2004. Keith Hollis began playing electric organ in pre-school and later switched to piano at age 7. Keith attend Crossroads secondary arts school in Santa Monica, CA. At 15 years old Keith began performing with legendary Los Angeles based blues singer Ms. Mickey Champion and guitar legend Evan “Neckbone” Walker at Los Angeles’ famed Babe’s and Ricky Blue Club. Keith was re-introduced to the electric organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano while playing at Babe’s and Ricky Inn. Keith’s passion for blues, jazz and improvised music continued him on to college studies in jazz and North Indian classical music at University of California, Los Angeles and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Keith studied privately for 2 years with Panamanian jazz pianist/composer Danilo Perez, as well as studies with drummer/percussionist Bob “Rakalam” Moses and sitarist/ethnomusicoligist Peter Row. Keith has performed with Stanton Moore, Ron Miles, Elijah Allman, Vicente Archer, Joel Bowers, Bob “Rakalam” Moses, Elijah Allman, Joachim Cooder and Solomon Burke Jr. Keith has toured the world playing Hammond and piano at venues such as the Joshua Tree Music Festival, The Elbo Room, The Temple Bar, Viper Room, The Boom Boom Room, Harvelle’s, Gibson Amphitheater and the massive Lovebox Weekender in Victoria Park, London, England. Keith splits his time living between L.A. (Lower Allston), Massachusetts and L.A. (Los Angeles), California.

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Percussionist Sean Mannion, was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Sean graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music with a degree in Music Theory. Sean studied and performed with many of the top percussionists and composers of our time including Thomas Stubbs and Rick Holmes of the St. Louis Symphony, legendary jazz drummer Bob Moses, Fred Budda of the Boston Pops, Frank Epstein of the Boston Symphony, congero Sa Davis, and master African drummer Lamine Toure of Senegal. Sean performed throughout the US and abroad in such places as New York's Carnegie Hall, the World Financial Center, the Aspen Music Festival, Boston's Symphony Hall, and the Bali Arts Festival in Bali, Indonesia. Sean performs with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Balinese Indonesian ensemble Gamelan Galaktika as well as with the PO’ Boyz. Sean resides in the Boston suburb of Dedham, MA.

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