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Solo Performers |
 Elliott Adams has been playing ragtime since age 10 and is now known internationally as a ragtime player, collector, historian, writer, and composer.
His extensive collection of ragtime, blues, and early jazz sheet music is available to researchers, musicians, and publishers. He has several notable solo recordings on the Stomp Off and PianoMania labels.
Elliott is an intrepid golfer and a practicing dermatologist. |
Cleve Baker, as a youngster after the War, was turned on to the Traditional Jazz of Lu Watters that he heard on the radio, including live ragtime played by Wally Rose, long before ragtime was revived by The Sting.
He was "hooked" by the history of the music, its composers and how it has played a role in the social
history of the United States.
Cleve did his first paying gig at the Red Garter, during his senior year at Stanford Medical
School...read more. |
 Tom Barnebey has been in trad jazz since the 1960s, when he began playing banjo and piano in pizza parlors around the Los Angeles area, and cornet with the then newly formed Jelly Roll Jazz Band. After moving to Sonoma County, he led the well regarded Jazz Salvation Company for 20 years. Over the years Tom has been a member of, or filled in on various instruments with such jazz bands as San Francisco Feetwarmers, Bear Republic, Trad Trio, Devil Mountain,,,read
more.
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 Flutist
Anne Barnhart’s musical experiences with Ivory&Gold® have taken her around the world. Her performances have been enjoyed from coast to coast in the US and abroad in places such as England, Scotland, Ireland, Russia, French Polynesia, South America, Canada, and France just to name a few. Audiences are dazzled by her technique, awed by her tone and enthralled with her timing when bantering with her husband, pianist Jeff
Barnhart...read more.
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Jeff Barnhart,
while now a highly regarded pianist, vocalist, arranger, bandleader, recording
artist, composer, pedagogue and entertainer, Jeff had very humble beginnings. Jeff began his
professional career at age 14 playing and entertaining four nights a week in a restaurant in his
home state of Connecticut. Here he began to learn the classic swing, jazz and ragtime repertoire
of the early 20th century. Jeff put himself through college playing throughout...read more. |
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 Andrew E. Barrett comes from a musical family and was brought up hearing a wide variety of music in the house, from traditional jazz and swing that is his father's favorite, to
the classic rock and world music enjoyed by his uncle, to the classical music, operetta, and ragtime favored by his
grandfather. Although he enjoys all of this music, Andrew really latched onto the ragtime,
and, also propelled by his discovery of automatic musical
instruments and their music...read more.
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 Tom
Bopp has made his living as an entertainer since 1982, performing a
wide range of piano and vocal music. In spring of 1983, Tom signed on at
the historic Wawona Hotel in Yosemite National Park, and continues to
perform there nightly in the hotel’s piano parlor. Born in southern California (1957) and raised in
Torrance, Tom was introduced to the keyboard by his older brother Steve,
who taught him how to play Chopsticks on their parents’ newly acquired...read more.
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 Chris & Jack Bradshaw.
With 88 keys and 20 fingers at their disposal, classically trained ragtime
piano duo artists, Jack and Chris, of Gilroy California, lefteously proclaim having the most piano keys held down at any one
time--many of them left! Not going for speed, their quest is for clarity and classic ragtime charm as their fingers dance off the keyboard to
Jack’s four-hand arrangements of popular rags, cakewalks, marches....read more. |
 Tom Brier was born in October, 1971 in Oakdale, California, a farming community in the Great Central Valley south of Sacramento. When he was four, his parents bought an old Schubert mechanical player piano, and soon he was picking out tunes he heard on the piano rolls. Aware that their son had talent, his parents enrolled him with a local piano teacher when he was five, and in a short time he was composing and notating his own
music...read more. |
 Jared Di Bartolommeo.
An engineering graduate of University of California at Irvine,
Jared helps revive ragtime for a new generation. Jared was first exposed to ragtime at the age of two when his father played the Maple Leaf Rag on the home piano. The syncopated rhythms left an impression on Jared, and at age eight he started taking formal piano lessons. Within a year and a half, he was playing The Entertainer. After receiving a folio of Scott Joplin’s
rags...read more. |
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 Neville Dickie was born in County Durham, England on January 1st 1937. His early years in music were spent in the northern working
men's' clubs. After his National Service in the RAF, Neville left Durham and moved to London.
He spent many years working for little money in the pubs around the London area and his lucky break came when he was auditioned by the BBC and spotted by Doreen Davies, then head of Radio 2. Hundreds of broadcasts followed, both
solo...read more.
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 Robyn and Steve
Drivon, The Drivons became part of the West Coast ragtime movement in 2003 when Robyn began performing on tuba with the Porcupine Ragtime Ensemble. Soon after, Steve joined in playing trombone, and their new love for ragtime was born. Soon, Steve started showing up with his drums, which fostered the Sullivans & Drivons quartet. Since 2007, Robyn and
Steve...read more. |
 Marty Eggers.
Terry
Waldo describes Marty as having "an encyclopedic knowledge of
the ragtime and early jazz repertoire".
He has played with numerous Bay Area jazz and ragtime groups, including
the Yerba Buena Stompers, John Gill's San Francisco Jazz Band and the Black
Diamond Jazz Band. In addition to solo piano, Marty appeared at the
festival for years as bassist with the Bo Grumpus Trio. He has also
appeared with the Tichenor Family Trio...read more. |
 Joyce
Grant, born in Texarkana, Arkansas (the town where Scott Joplin was raised) moved to Oakland, California as a child where she started singing at an early age in her church choir. Since that time she has earned the respect of singers and musicians alike performing professionally in the Bay Area for over 20 years. Her unique shows consist of a blend of jazz, blues, country western, r&b and funk. She is a
singer/songwriter...read more. |
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Rosemary Hallum,
pianist, is also known as “Rosie,” writer for
American Rag (with her monthly column “Rosie’s Corner”), Clavier piano magazine and
Body Fitness magazine of Spain. Rosie enjoys playing ragtime and novelty, built upon a classical background. She has performed at the Ragtime Corners of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee and at the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, plus piano festivals in
Amalfi, Italy; Manchester, England; and Sopron, Hungary...read
more. |
 John Hancock was born and raised and resides in St. Louis, Missouri. He began playing and composing Ragtime in his youth and, by the time of his high school graduation, he had created a distinct compositional style in the Folk Ragtime tradition. His only recording, Mississippi Motion: A Legacy in River Ragtime, was released in 1982 (Stomp Off Records SOS-1025). Best known for his Folk Rag “Dixon” written in 1983, Hancock continues to compose in the Folk Rag
genre...read more.
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Frederick Hodges
specializes in the piano music and popular songs of the ragtime era, the 1920s, and the 1930s. Classically trained and groomed for a career as a concert pianist, he was happily lured away from this path after he discovered a stack of 1920s sheet music in this grandmother's piano bench. Exposure to the rollicking rhythms of player pianos and 78 RPM phonograph records sealed his fate, and he set out to master the ragtime and novelty piano
playing...read more.
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 Brian Holland is an internationally renown pianist, composer, recording artist, and entertainer who has enjoyed a music career spanning more than 35 years. After spending his formative years playing in pizza parlors and clubs throughout Indiana, Brian’s career flourished when he discovered the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. In 1999, he won his third title and was retired as “undefeated.” He has since returned three times to serve on the
judges...read more.
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 Martin Jäger, a Swiss who grew up near Zurich, started his professional life as a medical doctor with a degree from the University of Zurich. But music, his first love, eventually won
out. Martin discovered American ragtime and Gershwin...read more.
Felix Fürer, studied music & drums at the Conservatory of Music in Zürich. Besides being a teacher, he became a well known drummer playing with
numerous...read
more. |
 Steve Johnson has been playing and performing Scott Joplin Ragtime since 1983. His original exposure to ragtime was the soundtrack to "The Sting", and since then, Steve has focused his repertoire on the works of Ragtime's King, Scott Joplin. In addition to ragtime, Steve has been performing locally for 14 years as a singer-songwriter for various Sacramento based bands, and has recently finished his second recording project of original songs. |
Vincent Johnson’s multifaceted approach to
ragtime and syncopated piano music is both forward thinking
and historically minded. As a pianist, he is dedicated to the
oft-forgotten novelty piano style and peppers his performances
with renditions of rarely heard compositions. As a
transcriber, he is as likely to be transcribing a syncopated
song arrangement from a Duo-Art piano roll as he is to be
transcribing...read more. |
Max Keenlyside,
is a dazzling pianist and formidable composer and has made an auspicious entry into the music world. Born in 1991 and starting in music at the age of ten, he has written and performed music in ragtime, stride, and classical styles, gaining a reputation as a top young artist in his field.
In 2009, Max represented Prince Edward Island in the National Artist’s Program, held in the conjunction with the Canada Games. A
favorite at jazz and ragtime...read
more. |
 A native of Ohio,
Scott Kirby began his study of music at the age of six, and continued formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and Sylvia Zaremba at the Ohio State University. After obtaining an English degree from Ohio State University, Kirby moved to New Orleans and began his professional music career, as a street performer. In the following four years, he recorded the complete rags...read more. |
 Carl Sonny Leyland.
Carl Sonny Leyland was born & raised on the South Coast of England, growing up close to the city of Southampton.
As a child he was drawn to the American music which he heard on LP records his father would play. It was here that he developed an appreciation for Dixieland jazz, the rock & roll of the 1950s & the country music of Jimmie Rodgers & Hank
Williams....read
more. |
 Frank LiVolsi is a pianist and composer from Rhode Island who specializes in ragtime and early jazz. Beginning his musical education at the Knapp School of Music under the instruction of Mrs. Julia Tombello, Frank received classical training and only discovered a passionate interest in ragtime during his early teen years.
Frank first performance outside New England was in 2011, when he performed at the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia,
Missouri...read
more. |
 Jonathan Meredith
has been playing finger-style ragtime guitar for about 40
years. He plays both nylon and steel string guitars for both
classical rags and parlor rags as well as ragtime arrangements
of original, popular, jazz, novelty tunes from the
30's and 40's. He plays in and around the foothill area of
Nevada City and Grass Valley. In the mid 1980's he
produced a series called "Ragtime" in Nevada
City featuring piano, guitar, dancing, slideshows...read
more. |
 A ragtime aficionado since the “Sting” ragtime revival in the 1970’s,
Paul Orsi is a
seasoned performer and composer. From a young age, he was a member of the
old Maple Leaf Club and began professionally performing ragtime piano at age 13
in pizza parlors in and around Los Angeles. Paul has played his high energy
ragtime style in a variety of restaurants and venues throughout Southern
California. In 1983, Paul joined the elite group of Coke
Corner...read more. |
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 Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ezequiel
Pallejá is a ragtime and early jazz Performer since half a century ago,
participating in many Argentinian bands, like Tiempos Viejos Jazz Band, Roseland
Jazz Band, Guardia Vieja Jazz Band, Antigua Jazz Band, Eureka Jazz Band, Porteña
Jazz Band and at present the "Fenix Jazz Band”, attending during long
time shows in Argentina and participating in International festivals in New
Orleans and Connecticut, USA....read
more.
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 22-year-old
Will Perkins, a native of Riverbank, California has been playing the piano for 11 years and performing at Ragtime/Jazz Festivals since the age of 14. Recently returned from a two-year hiatus as a missionary in Uruguay, he is excited to make his first public performances at the 2015 West Coast Ragtime Festival. His love for the traditional stride piano styles of Fats Waller, James P. Johnson and Dick Wellstood have lead him to opportunities
to...read more, |
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 ...David Thomas Roberts...began composing, painting and writing at age eight. His first serious compositions reflect the influence of such composers as Chopin, Satie, Joplin and Ives. He has composed 140 solo piano works, including the major suites Map Dreams and New Orleans Streets, as well as chamber pieces, art songs, choral and electronic works. He recorded 5 LPs (1978-1985), and has appeared on 20
CDs...read more.
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 Jack Rummel has pursued the piano as an amateur most of his life. A composer and reviewer, he has hosted the weekly ragtime radio program KGNU's Ragtime America since 1980. He is also founder and co-producer of the annual Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival. He practiced dentistry in Boulder,
Colorado for over 30 years,
retiring in 2002. He is a tireless promoter of ragtime music and its performers; his recording for Stomp Off and his recent CD releases
of...read more. |
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 Christoph Schmetterer started taking cello lessons at the age of eight. Not until he was nineteen did he start composing and playing the piano, which has become his preferred instrument.
His first works were rags, and ragtime remains in the centre of his almost 200 compositions. Apart from that, he composes dances, marches and sacred music. He writes not only for piano, but also for orchestra, band and
choir He plays the organ at mass every Sunday in the small village...read
more.
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 Sean Sharp is glad to be back for his fourth West Coast Ragtime Festival; this year, he will give a seminar on his favorite ragtime-era singer, Eddie Morton. Sean’s last ragtime appearance was at the 15th Annual Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, performing his illustrated-songs show with Frederick Hodges. He is an original member of 42nd St. Moon
Productions; some of his favorite roles with that company have been in “The Good Companions,”....read
more. |
 David
Shepard
has had a major influence on the archival movement in the United States for the
past 40 years. His impact on the field and substantial accomplishments over the
last 35 years make him a worthy recipient of the AMIA Silver Light Award.* For those who he has worked with, assisted or
mentored, David has been a ready resource and an inspiration. He is always
willing to share information ...read
more. |
 Patrick Skiffington
is a native of Sacramento who honed his chops within the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society. He is an alumnus of The New Traditionalists, the educational youth band of the STJS.
Originally a bass player; Patrick switched to washboard a few years ago, as it is MUCH easier to carry. He is one half of the comedy and jazz duo The
FreeBadge Serenaders (along with Greg Sabin) as well as the anchor of the rhythm section
of...read
more. |
 Ray Skjelbred is a Chicago native. That fact becomes readily apparent when he sits down to play piano
and the sounds of the Windy City emanate from the keyboard. His inspirations are Joe Sullivan, Jess
Stacy, Earl Hines, Art Hodes and the "goofy guys" --players with unique, eccentric styles such as
George Zack, Cassino Simpson, Zinky Cohn, Alex Hill and "Kansas City Frank" Melrose. Still, Ray's tastes are anything but
one-dimensional...read
more. |
 Martin Spitznagel has been hailed as a remarkable, astonishing, and “face-melting”
musical talent. His flying fingers and sparkling repertoire have left audiences across
the country enthralled with America’s first popular music, Ragtime.
Whether performing the masterworks of Scott Joplin or the score to Star Wars, Martin is
truly at home on the piano bench. He found success early, winning a Yamaha Disklavier
at the age of 14 in Calliope Media’s...read
more. |
 Squeek
Steele, pianist, composer, teacher, entertainer, holds a Guinness World Record (1990 book, p. 18 under Squeek Moore) for playing more pieces of music on piano from memory. Classically trained at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, she plays a wide variety of musical styles from many different eras. She has performed internationally (Singapore, Hong Kong, Berlin, Germany) as well as in the U.S. (New York, Wyoming, Virginia,
Connecticut)...read more. |
 Adam Swanson is rapidly becoming known as one of the world’s foremost performers and historians of ragtime and early American popular music. He recently received his B.A. in classical piano performance and is now in his second year of graduate studies as a musicology student at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Although Adam is only twenty-three years old, he has been a featured
performer...read
more. |
 Virginia
Tichenor has been consumed by ragtime her entire life, as the
daughter of Trebor Tichenor, the noted ragtime scholar, pianist, collector
and founder of the St. Louis Ragtimers. She studied music at the St.
Louis Community Association for the Arts and took advanced training from
concert pianist, John Phillips. Always at the crossroads of the ragtime
revival, her parental home houses the world's largest library of ragtime
sheet music and piano rolls...read
more. |
 Wearing her Ragtime Era costumes and enthusiastic smile,
“Washboard Kitty” provides versatile musical energy and accent to festival and concert performances with top ragtime pianists and ensembles. She alternates between playing her embellished musical washboard, hand-crafted woodboard, Cajon drum, and assorted hand-held percussion instruments, to enhance particular musical numbers.
Kitty is a member of the Raspberry Jam Band....read
more. |
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| Youth
Performers |
 Ramona
Sidney Baker
is fourteen years old and a sophomore at Capuchino High
School. Ramona has been playing Ragtime for just over three
years, with the help of her teacher Virginia Tichenor, and has
been interested in Ragtime for many years more than that. Her
father, Clint Baker, was the one who first interested her in
this addictive music. Starting with a few records from the
1900s that had Ragtime dance music on them, hearing them first
when...read more. |
 Diego
Bustamante, from Paradise California, became
interested in ragtime when, as a kid, he heard The
Entertainer by Scott Joplin. The ragtime world discovered
him at the West Coast Youth Ragtime Competition five years
ago. Since then he has appeared at Sutter Creek and West Coast
festivals plus several youth concerts. He has been studying
piano for eight years–five
of those year with Dr. Robert Bowman. Diego is now working on
his first CD...read more. |
 Michael Chisholm is from Houston, Texas, and has grown up in a musically appreciative family. His first music training was in middle school, where he learned to play the xylophone and marimba. Eventually, he graduated to piano. Michael's first exposure to ragtime was watching JoAnn Castle play on a rerun of the Lawrence Welk Show. From that moment, he knew ragtime was his style of music. Since then, he has composed over 50
rags...read more. |
 Maurice Imhof is 19 years old and lives in
Uitikon, near Zurich (Switzerland). He has played the piano since he was 6. His enormous joy of playing was guided for more than 8 years with experience, caution and gentle patience by pianist and teacher Benjamin
Kellerhals, who therefore made a considerable contribution to his development.
Maurice Imhof attended Rämibühl A+S (Art and Sport) grammar school and is now studying piano at Zurich
University...read
more. |
Thirteen-year-old pianist
Graham Messer, from Berkeley, has been studying piano for four years with Frederick Hodges. Graham attends Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley where he plays piano in the jazz band. Recently, the band performed at Yoshi’s, a renowned jazz club. Along with a passion for piano, Graham enjoys mountain biking and trying new foods. His interest in Ragtime probably started soon after birth as he has spent his entire...read
more.. |
 Dara Phung is sixteen years old and lives in Burlingame, California. She has been playing the piano for the past twelve years under the direction of Sumi Nagasawa. Dara's interest in ragtime began when she first competed in the West Coast Youth Ragtime Competition in 2011. In addition to her passion for ragtime, Dara also enjoys playing classical and jazz piano, and has competed in a number of local and nationwide classical piano competitions and...read
more. |
 John Reed-Torres
is a Los Angeles native. The first time John recalls hearing Ragtime was during school recess in fourth grade when he heard an ice cream truck creeping along playing Scott Joplin’s 'The Entertainer.' Right then and there the ragtime bug bit him and sparked his love for antiquity, ranging from architecture to automobiles.
Shortly after that, John began to teach himself piano and continued throughout his middle school and high school days....reed
more. |
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 Ryan Wishner began playing the piano at the age of ten, and was immediately drawn toward ragtime. He now plays a wider variety of music ranging from the mid-1800’s through the 1930’s. Rather than basing his performances strictly on the printed sheet music, he tries to imitate the style of piano rolls and phonograph records from when the music was popular. Ryan also collects the original sheet music, piano rolls, and
records...read more.
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| Groups |
 Big Mama Sue & Fast Eddie
began as a “casuals” duo in 1988 and has continued to this day to enchant general audiences with a mix of Americana, Ragtime, Early Jazz and Blues, and much much more. Although this is their first appearance at a Ragtime Festival, the duo have a wide repertoire of ragtime and ragtime era music which they are excited about presenting.
Big Mama Sue (washboard, vocals): is a veteran...read more/ |
 Buffalo
Crossing is a string band firmly rooted in the
old-time music tradition, with a vast repertoire to suit any
audience and any occasion. From traditional fiddle tunes to
modern classics in an old time style, from country rags to
swing, 'Buffalo Crossing' will show you a good time. 'Buffalo
Crossing's...read
more. |
Formed in 2007, The
Crown Syncopators Ragtime Trio consists of Virginia Tichenor on drums, Marty Eggers on tuba, and Frederick Hodges on piano. The trio plays regularly to enthusiastic crowds of music lovers at legendary waterfront restaurant Pier 23 in San Francisco and is expanding its territory to include ragtime and jazz festivals around the country. The trio derives its name from the brand name...read
more. |
 Ivory&Gold®Praised by The L.A. Jazz Scene as a musical duo that can “draw out the beauty in the rich melodies and play the music...with taste, sensitivity, and a real affection for the idiom,”
Ivory&Gold® celebrates the greatest examples of American jazz, blues, ragtime, Broadway and hits from the Great American Songbook. Internationally renowned American musical performer and historian Max Morath calls
Ivory&Gold® “...read
more. |
 The Pacific Coast Ragtime Orchestra is a group of about 10 musicians dedicated to playing and
preserving turn- of-the-century ragtime music. The Ragtimers, organized in 1980 by music teachers from Pacifica and Half Moon Bay, coastal towns south of San Francisco play dance
and...read more.
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 The Porcupine Ragtime Ensemble began about 1983 (not 1909, as they often claim) when Elliott Adams and Petra and Bub Sullivan started playing together as a trio at the Sacramento Ragtime Society sessions to explore harmonies and Elliott's sheet music collection. Over the years the group has expanded to its present size and instrumentation.
The Porcupine repertoire ranges from folk rags to tangos, cakewalks,
classical...read more.
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 Ragnolia Ragtette mixes the elegant to humorous gems of the ragtime era with some of the newer, favorite contemporary rags. Listen as this artful combination of 4-hand piano, tuba and percussion present parlor tunes that burst forth in high ragtime style. Playing the music that originated from the recreational houses on one side of the tracks and later made its way
to...read more. |
Raspberry Jam Band has become part of the music scene in the Sacramento, Sierra Foothills and Bay Area. They have participated in the Ragtime Corner of the Sacramento Music Festival (formerly known as the Jazz Jubilee), the West Coast Ragtime Festival, the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, Music for Humanity, Music on the
Divide...read more.
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 Sullivans
and Drivons offer an array of
contemporary and classic rags, including Latin tangos and waltzes, plus
ragtime and novelty songs. Among
the pillars of the Sacramento Ragtime Society, the Sullivans have been
part of the ragtime world for over 20 years.
They have had the rather unique pleasure of being interviewed and
performing in China for Shanghai television....read more.
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Seminar
Presenters
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 Bill Edwards
Topic: "Publishers - The Necessary Evil for Ragtime Era Composers"
A discussion of the origins of music publishing as a national industry rather than small regional businesses, the multiple roles that a publishing organization had to take on to bring the music to
market...read more. |
 Larry
Karp Topic: "A Re-evaluation of The Ragtime Kid"
Many ragtime enthusiasts regard Sanford Brunson (Brun) Campbell as a ragtime sideshow of sorts, a well-meaning acolyte of Scott Joplin's, but not a terribly important figure in his own
right...read more. |
 Max Morath
Topic: "Ragtime Current: The New
Composers"
Max Morath explores the remarkable production of new ragtime piano compositions by today’s musicians. Drawing on lengthy interviews, he quotes a number of these composers on
how...read more. |
| John
Reed Torres
Topic: "John William "Blind" Boone--The Triumph of Genius in the Face of Adversity"
Mr. Reed-Torres will present a look into the life and times of Concert Pianist and Composer, Mr. John William "Blind" Boone. Blind Boone was born during the American Civil war. His mother was an
ex-slave...read more, |
 David
Reffkin Topic: "The Stunning Legends and Secret Legacies of Bob
Wright"
If ever a ragtime pianist were “the one who got away,” it was Bob Wright, an eccentric genius and almost unknown figure beyond Chicago’s popular music scene. He played only in local venues, rarely
recorded...read more. |
 Galen
Wilkes
Topic: "Syncopating
Celluloid"
Galen Wilkes has been fascinated with the turn of the century years since he was about three! A friend of his father’s owned a player piano to which he connected a vacuum hose so it would play itself! The music and mechanical operation was something to behold and Galen has never stopped being drawn to the era. When the ragtime revival of the 1970s was ignited, he began playing rags, then composing them, and reading about its
history...read more. |
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| Dance Instructors
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back for dance instruction schedule. |
 Bruce Mitchell.
Head Dance Instructor
Bruce Mitchell returns to the West Coast Ragtime Festival. His career began in the 1950s and spans all types of dance, with an emphasis on vintage and folk dancing.
Bruce is director of the Camtia Dance Ensemble, specializing in German dance, which has danced all over the Western United States, for nearly half a century. He is director of the annual Stockton Folk Dance Camp, and is President Elect of
the...read more. |
 Richard "Rich"
Duree, new to Sacramento in 1960, worked for the Department of
Justice. A colleague invited him to go to a dance concert on a Sunday afternoon at the Memorial Auditorium. They were late, and the first thing he saw when they entered was a performance of the Ukrainian
Hopak. It took his breath
away because he knew that these were not professional dancers and that he could do that, too!
Richard became "hooked. He'd been active ..read
more. |
 Stan
Isaacs is a vintage dance and folk dance leader and teacher in the San Francisco Bay area. Stan began teaching folk dance around 1958 while attending Antioch College in Ohio. In the mid-1980s, he discovered Vintage Dancing when he sponsored a workshop with Richard Powers at his folk dance group.
Stan arrived in the Bay Area in 1964, and soon began teaching at the UC Berkeley folk dance club, but he also danced in San Francisco, Menlo
Park...read more. |
| Piano Accompanists |
 Stanley Stern has been playing music for the dance instruction at the Sacramento Ragtime Festival for the past ten years. He often plays with a piano partner but for the 2015 Ragtime Show he will be playing with Mario Ojeda. Mario is a senior music student of violin at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Mario’s master violin teacher is Paul Severtson, the concert Master of the SLO Symphony Orchestra. He recommended Mario to Stanley for
performances...read
more. |
 Mario
Ojeda, born in Chula Vista, California started playing the violin at 12 years of age. He learned much of the classical symphonic pieces quickly and soon was asked to join several noted performing groups in this area. These include Opera San Luis Obispo, Symphony of the Vines, SLO Symphony Orchestra, Santa Maria Philharmonic, Cuesta Master Chorale. His teacher, Paul Severtson introduced him to Stanley Stern, who introduced him to Ragtime
music...more. |
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Douglas Fairbanks in THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920)
Accompanied by Frederick
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in
LIBERTY (1929)
Accompanied by Adam
Swanson
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Charley Chase in His Wooden Wedding
(1925)
Accompanied by Squeek
Steele
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