The Traveling Piano has been visiting Covington and the surrounding areas.
Local Covington residents Bill and Beverly Warburton have been hosting Piano Man Danny Kean with his pup Mo who hangs out on top of a piano that has been on the back of the same pickup truck for almost 35 years.
The duo has been in the area to create musical fun, friendship, and respect with inspiration and empowerment for everyone. The piano man lives in the moment and as a result, does not know how much longer he will be staying. It could be anywhere from a week to two or three weeks.
They create music for people to discover through synchronicity and spontaneity. Sometimes they can be found in downtown
Covington on the corner of Main Street and North Maple Avenue.
Danny fills the street with the Traveling Piano’s special style of improvisational music and also shares the piano seat for a few minutes with everyone who walks by. The piano man enjoys showing people of all ages how to create music and how to play the piano. He specializes in those who have never played the piano before, does not think they can play, or those who have
had not-so-good experiences from music lessons in the past.
The Traveling Piano is not for entertainment or performing. It is all about short, positive, one-on-one relationships with the idea of strangers becoming less afraid of each other.
There are no fees. Danny does not collect tips and there is no commercial affiliation with the Traveling Piano. He makes his
way through those who invite the Traveling Piano into their community to stay with them and through friends who contribute on his Traveling Piano website. On the Traveling Piano website, you can find a daily blog entry for every day since 2006 with pictures and music.
The Traveling Piano journey began through lending support in Louisiana after hurricane Katrina in 2006 and then again with a request from Virginia Tech for a visit after the mass gun murders at the school in 2007. Since then the Traveling Piano has helped bring healing and a healthy distraction to other national tragedies such as in the mass murders of school children in Sandy Hook Ct., after a tornado that devastated a large area of Joplin, Mo. and most recently after the tornado’s that tore through Pennsylvania and New Jersey a few months ago.
Danny Kean spent his first twenty years in Philadelphia, Pa., as a performer on the Traveling Piano. For the last 15 years, his work with the Traveling Piano has transformed into community outreach throughout the nation. As well as cross country several times, he has traveled from Alaska to the South of Mexico and from New Newfoundland to the Florida Keys. The piano man is presently on his last cross-country journey and on his way back to Las Vegas where he now resides. Long live the Traveling Piano’s with its Bringing the Beat to the Street!
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