Schedule for 2007 West Coast Ragtime Festival

This page updated 11/3/07. Prior update 10/28/07.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

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TIME CAMELLIA COMSTOCK MARTINIQUE SAVANNA'S SIERRA YOSEMITE
12:00 PM Alex Hassan Open Piano Raspberry Jam
Band
CLOSED Craig Ventresco
& Meredith Axelrod
Marty Eggers
12:15 PM
12:30 PM Open Piano
12:45 PM Frederick Hodges Dance Instruction
B. Mitchell  (One- Step - beginning)
Mimi Blais † Bradshaws,
Case, Bostick
'Too Many Notes'
1:00 PM Open Piano
1:15 PM
1:30 PM Tom Brier Open Piano Dance Instruction
R. Duree
(Waltz)
Janet Klein &
Brad Kay
Frank French
1:45 PM
2:00 PM Open Piano
2:15 PM Paul Asaro w/
Craig Ventresco
Crown
Syncopators
Ray Skjelbred David Thomas
Roberts
2:30 PM Open Piano
2:45 PM
3:00 PM Adam Swanson Jack Rummel Dance Instruction
R. Duree
(Tango)
Neville Dickie
with Hal Smith
Carl Sonny
Leyland
Alex Hassan
3:15 PM
3:30 PM Nan Bostick
3:45 PM Mimi Blais Dance Instruction
B. Mitchell (Cake
Walk/Schottische)
Frederick Hodges
& Ann Gibson
Squeek Steele § Classic Ragtime Hour
Bradshaw, Brier, Rummel
Ventresco & Axelrod,
DTR, Rivard, Tichenor
4:00 PM Shirley Case
4:15 PM Janet Klein
& Brad Kay
4:30 PM Ray Skjelbred
with Hal Smith
Plucking
Wonders
Heliotrope Brian Holland
4:45 PM Neville Dickie
& Paul Asaro
5:00 PM Bradshaws Nan Bostick
5:15 PM Frank French w/
Sophie Rivard

Hodges & Hassan

5:30 PM Adam Yarian Squeek Steele Piano Tuning Piano Tuning
5:45 PM
6:00 PM Piano Tuning Piano Tuning Raspberry Jam
Band
Andrew Barrett
6:15 PM
6:30 PM Piano Tuning Brian Holland § 'Festival Sampler'
Jack Rummel, emcee
6:45 PM Carl Sonny
Leyland
Piano Tuning
7:00 PM Steve Johnson Sullivans & Drivons
(Heebee Jeebees)
7:15 PM Plucking
Wonders
7:30 PM Brian Holland Adam Swanson Stern & Piver Frank French Andrew Barrett
7:45 PM
8:00 PM Sue Schmitt Porcupines
Cakewalk Demo
Tom Brier † Frederick Hodges
& Ann Gibson
'WWI Set'
8:15 PM Squeek Steele Stephanie Trick
8:30 PM Jim Radloff
Sing-a-long
Porcupines Plucking
Wonders
8:45 PM Neville Dickie
9:00 PM Janet Klein
& Brad Kay
Pash & Axelrod Heliotrope Tom Brier &
Andrew Barrett
9:15 PM Virginia Tichenor,
Craig Ventresco
& Hal Smith
9:30 PM Open Piano Mimi Blais w/
Sophie Rivard
9:45 PM David Thomas
Roberts
Paul Asaro
10:00 PM Open Piano Porcupines Carl Sonny
Leyland Trio
10:15 PM Brian Holland
10:30 PM Adam Yarian Open Piano Bob Pinsker
10:45 PM
11:00 PM CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED AFTER-HOURS CLOSED CLOSED
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17

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TIME CAMELLIA COMSTOCK MARTINIQUE SAVANNA'S SIERRA YOSEMITE
9:00 AM Jared
DiBartolomeo
Open Piano CLOSED CLOSED Shirley Case Ray Skjelbred
9:15 AM
9:30 AM Open Piano Dance Instruction
R. Duree
(Waltz)
9:45 AM CLOSED Andrew Barrett Jack Rummel
Rummel plays Rummel
10:00 AM Youth Master
Class
Open Piano
10:15 AM Dance Instruction
B. Mitchell
(Fox Trot)
10:30 AM Open Piano Tom Brier † Frank French & Sarah Roth: ' Latin American
Piano Traditions'
10:45 AM
11:00 AM CLOSED Open Piano Squeek Steele
11:15 AM Alex Hassan Janet Klein
& Brad Kay
11:30 AM Galen Wilkes ‡
'HOT WAX – The Phonograph in Ragtime'
Open Piano Heliotrope
11:45 AM
12:00 PM Open Piano Marty Eggers w/
Virginia Tichenor
Mimi Blais
with Sophie
Paul Asaro w/
Craig Ventresco
& Hal Smith
12:15 PM
12:30 PM Dave Jasen ‡
'And That
Reminds Me...'
Shirley Case † Stern/Piver
Tango Set
12:45 PM Ray Skjelbred Neville Dickie † Squeek Steele
' The Forgotten Verse'
1:00 PM Sarah Roth PCRO
1:15 PM
1:30 PM Nan Bostick ‡
'Uncle Charlie's Hoosier Pals'
Bob Pinsker Adam Yarian Hodges & Swanson Brian Holland
1:45 PM
2:00 PM Bradshaws Dance Instruction
B. Mitchell (One-
Step - Intermediate)
2:15 PM Carl Sonny
Leyland Trio
Alex Hassan Stephanie Trick
2:30 PM CLOSED Sue Schmitt
2:45 PM Dance Instruction
R. Duree
(Tango)
§ Zez Confrey Special
D. Jasen, emcee; Blais,
  Brier, Hodges, Holland,
Rivard, Trick, Tichenor
3:00 PM Paul Asaro Jared
DiBartolomeo
Sullivans & Drivons
(Heebee Jeebees)
Ray Skjelbred
3:15 PM
3:30 PM Galen Wilkes CLOSED
3:45 PM Frank French
w/ Sophie Rivard
Neville Dickie
with Hal Smith
& Marty Eggers
Janet Klein 
& Brad Kay
Ventresco & Axelrod
4:00 PM Andrew Barrett Silent Movies
4:15 PM
4:30 PM Bradshaws Steve Johnson Sullivans & Drivons Virginia Tichenor
with Sophie Rivard
David Roberts
4:45 PM
5:00 PM Open Piano
5:15 PM Stephanie Trick Raspberry Jam
Band
† Nan Bostick
'Uncle Charlie's Rags'
Adam Swanson
5:30 PM Open Piano CLOSED
5:45 PM Piano Tuning
6:00 PM Piano Tuning Open Piano Porcupines Shirley Case Piano Tuning
6:15 PM
6:30 PM Open Piano Piano Tuning § Tin Pan Alley Songs
Janet, Ann, Meredith, Helen, Hodges, Kay, Hassan, Brier
§Stride, Stomps, Surprises
Jack Rummel, emcee
Asaro, Dickie, Holland,
Leyland, Skjelbred, Craig, Yarian, Smith, Eggers
6:45 PM
7:00 PM CLOSED Open Piano Heliotrope
7:15 PM
7:30 PM CLOSED Open Piano
7:45 PM CLOSED CLOSED
8:00 PM Adam Swanson Dennis Pash &
Meredith Axelrod
PCRO Squeek Steele David Roberts Virginia Tichenor & 
Marty  Eggers
8:15 PM
8:30 PM † Jim Radloff
Sing-a-long
8:45 PM Adam Yarian Paul Asaro
with Hal Smith
Frank French w/
Sophie Rivard
Carl Sonny Leyland
9:00 PM Open Piano Heliotrope
9:15 PM
9:30 PM Craig Ventresco
& Meredith Axelrod
Open Piano Roberts & Tichenor § Mimi Blais - Music Hall and Comedy Show
Blais, Asaro,
Hodges, Brian
Andrew Barrett
9:45 PM
10:00 PM Open Piano PCRO
10:15 PM Bob Pinsker Ray Skjelbred
with Hal Smith
 & Marty Eggers
Tom Brier
10:30 PM Open Piano Mimi Blais
10:45 PM
11:00 PM CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED AFTER-HOURS CLOSED CLOSED
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18

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TIME CAMELLIA COMSTOCK MARTINIQUE SAVANNA'S SIERRA YOSEMITE
9:00 AM Nan Bostick
Shirley Case
Open Piano Silent Movies CLOSED Jack Rummel † Virginia Tichenor
Tichenor plays Tichenor
9:15 AM
9:30 AM Open Piano
9:45 AM Ray Skjelbred † Bradshaws
Jack solo set
Marty Eggers
10:00 AM Open Piano CLOSED
10:15 AM
10:30 AM CLOSED Open Piano Dance Instruction
B. Mitchell
(Review)
Janet Klein
& Brad Kay
David Thomas
Roberts
§ Youth Concert
Frederick Hodges,
emcee
10:45 AM
11:00 AM ‡ Larry Karp
Sedalia’s Contract with History
Open Piano
11:15 AM Dance Instruction
R. Duree
(Review)
Neville Dickie
with Hal Smith
Frank French
11:30 AM Open Piano Adam Yarian
11:45 AM
12:00 PM ‡ Adam Swanson
'The Johnny Maddox Story'
Jim Radloff Heliotrope Marty Eggers w/
Virginia Tichenor
& Craig Ventresco
Carl Sonny
Leyland
12:15 PM Mimi Blais w/
Sophie Rivard
12:30 PM Jared
DiBartolomeo
12:45 PM Squeek Steele Tom Bopp
1:00 PM ‡ Brad Kay
'A Letter from
George Gershwin'
Shirley Case PCRO Brian Holland
1:15 PM
1:30 PM Dennis Pash &
Meredith Axelrod
Carl Sonny
Leyland Trio
w/ Ray Skjelbred
Frederick Hodges
1:45 PM Paul Asaro
w/ Craig Ventresco
2:00 PM † Tom Bopp
' Vintage Songs
of Yosemite'
Bradshaws Raspberry Jam
Band
2:15 PM Sullivans & Drivons
(Heebee Jeebees)
Alex Hassan
2:30 PM Andrew Barrett Neville Dickie
2:45 PM
3:00 PM Mimi Blais Ventresco
& Axelrod
Crown
Syncopators
Paul Asaro Brian Holland
3:15 PM Frank French w/
Sophie Rivard
3:30 PM Adam Swanson Tom Bopp
3:45 PM CLOSED CLOSED
4:00 PM CLOSED § Festival Finale CLOSED CLOSED
4:15 PM
4:30 PM
4:45 PM
5:00 PM POST-FESTIVAL PARTY

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† Theme Set
§ Special Show
‡ Seminar

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2007 West Coast Ragtime Festival
November 16, 17, & 18