Ballas is apparently a singer-songwriter too who is dating singer/songwriter, BC Jean.
He seems partial to The Hotel Cafe, but isn't listed for any shows there this week.
Quote:I went to see my girlfriend sing at Hotel Café. She’s an incredible songwriter. She’s had some success in the songwriting game. She wrote “If I Were A Boy” for Beyoncé. She’s had some other great rock hits and what not. And she’s just an incredible inspiration to me as a musician and as a singer/songwriter. That’s how we met; we met on the singer/songwriter circuit. She’s very high up there and everyone knows who she is, and she really enjoyed my music at set and that’s how we got talking and then we started collaborating. We went on a few dates here and there. And it’s just awesome to see her in her element. She’s been taking time to writing so she hasn’t been performing as much. So it was really cool to go see her just take the rooms by the nuts. No one talked when she sang; she’s just that good. She’s, in my opinion, what a true artist represents, being able to make you feel a certain emotion. And that’s me being unbiased because I appreciated her talent before her and I started dating. She’s co-written 3 or 4 songs on the record. She co-wrote with me and they came out great. Lyrically, she’s just wonderful.
http://www.markballas.com/blog/