Joey Thieman is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, teacher, singer and songwriter who moved to the Boston area in 2022 after living and performing in Kentucky for nearly 20 years. After earning both undergraduate and masters degrees in music, with a specialty in jazz, he has played in a wide variety of settings and styles. When not performing or teaching he spends his time learning from histories masters; Chopin and Oscar Peterson on the piano, Django Reinhardt on guitar, Charles Mingus on the bass, Miles Davis on the trumpet, Jimmy Smith on Hammond Organ, Tom Waits when it comes to songwriting, and Weird AL on the accordion. He has played with many well regarded musicians including Mark Charles, Houndmouth, Relaay, Wax Fang, Ben Sollee, Bonnie Prince Billy, Carly Johnson, Drew Miller, and Dawn Landes, and since moving to Boston has enjoyed meeting and playing with many great folk and jazz musicians. He has two studio alternative albums and one jazz album to his credit, the most recently “Letters, Words, Sentences, Songs”.

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