Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist, songwriter and vocalist Marcia Ball will perform at the Mauch Chunk Opera House in Jim Thorpe at 8 p.m. on Sept. 6.

Ball has won worldwide fame for her ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she takes the stage. Her rollicking Texas boogies, swampy New Orleans ballads and groove-laden Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite with music lovers all over the world.

“I still love the feel of the wheels rolling,” Ball says, “and the energy in a room full of people ready to go wherever it is we take them.”

Her latest album, “Shine Bright,” produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, is full of two-fisted piano, soulful vocals, a top-shelf band of Texas and Louisiana musicians and Marcia’s songwriting.

Her songs paint vibrant musical pictures richly detailed with recognizable characters, regional flavors, universal themes and colorful scenes, both real and imagined.

Born in Orange, Texas, in 1949 to a family whose female members all played piano, Ball grew up in the small town of Vinton, Louisiana, right across the border from Texas.

Seeing an Irma Thomas performance in 1962 and falling under the spell of Professor Longhair’s piano playing convinced Ball to seek out a career in music. She led a couple of early psychedelic country rock bands before pursuing her solo career from her adopted hometown of Austin, Texas.

Most recently, in 2018 she was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall Of Fame.

In 2019, Ball won the Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist-Piano. She also won the 2019 Living Blues Award for Most Outstanding Musician (keyboards) in both the Critics’ and Readers’ Polls.

Tickets for the show are available by calling Soundcheck Records in Jim Thorpe at 570-325-4009 and online at www.mcohjt.com. You can also call the box office at 570-325-0249 or just walk in the evening of the show.

Other shows

Looking for something fun to do? Here are some shows coming to the Mauch Chunk Opera House through September:

• Friday: Splintered Sunlight – Labor Day Weekend Party, 8 p.m.

• Saturday: Les Dudek, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 7: An evening with Nyke Van Wyk and Friends, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 6: Marcia Ball, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 13: Songs from the Road, 8 p.m.

• Sept 14: Cream of Clapton by the Craig Thatcher Band, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 20: Gilbert Gottfried (Legendary Comic), two adult s only show, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• Sept 21. The Weeklings (The Beatles Show), 8 p.m.

• Sept. 26: Skerryvore, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 27: Home Again - The Music of Carole King, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 28: Awaken The Yes Show, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 29: TUSK, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 3: Gina Chavez, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 4 : Ted Vigil’s tribute to John Denver, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 5: 70s Flashback, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 6: Swearingen & Kelli, 7 p.m.

• Oct. 11: Dala, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 12: Classic Stones Live (formerly The Glimmer Twins), 8 p.m.

• Oct. 13: Pete Palladino, 7 p.m.

• Oct. 18: YARN, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 19: The Sensational Soul Cruisers, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 25: Rubix Kube, 8 p.m.

• Oct. 26: Boolesque, 8 p.m.

• Nov. 1: Dead Letter Office, the R.E.M. Tribute, 8 p.m.

• Nov. 2: Linda Ronstadt Experience, 8 p.m.

• Nov. 8: Foreigners Journey Tribute, 8 p.m.

• Nov. 9: ELO The Electric Lynne Orchestra, 8 p.m.

• Nov. 15: Experience Janis, The Janis Joplin Show, 8 p.m.

• Nov. 16: Last Waltz Celebration, 8 p.m.