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Welcome to the 34th Annual West Coast Ragtime Virtual Festival!

Welcome to the 2020 Ragtime Festival. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Festival is taking place as an online Virtual event, mimicking as much as possible previous festivals. Over the course of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the weekend before Thanksgiving, many of the performers you look forward to seeing and hearing will be here. There will be familiar shows, including the Festival Sampler, Ragtime 1920 (yes there was ragtime after 1917!), the Youth Concert, plus Special Sets. And the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra is here! Unique to Festival 2020 there will be no badges to purchase, and no hotel reservations, or travel expenses. Attendance is free. But (yes, there's always the "but") we ask those who can make donations to help support the musicians. One hundred percent of your donation goes to the performers. Donations may be made beforehand and any time throughout the festival. You can use the donation link just below this message any time, and there will be links at each of the festival events. We hope you will join us for what will be a very special and inspiring weekend, November 20th through the 22nd. See you there!

Schedule

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Friday, Nov. 20

Festival Sampler

3 pm – 4:30 pm PST

Concert with a sample of the performers at this year's Festival!

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Friday Evening Concert

6 pm – 8 pm PST

Special sets by Frederick Hodges, Ivory & Gold® (Jeff & Anne Barnhart), Diego Bustamante, and others.

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Saturday, Nov. 21

Saturday Afternoon Concert

Sat, 21, noon – 2 pm PST

Special sets by GROOVUS (Brian Holland, Danny Coots, & Steve Pikal, John Reed-Torres, Morten Gunnar Larsen, and many more.

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Ragtime, 1920!

Sat, 21, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm PST

Every piece in this show is from 1920! Featured performers: Elliott Adams, Jade Anderson, Jeff Barnhart, and many others.

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Sunday, Nov. 22

Youth Concert & Special Welcome by Tom Bopp

Sun, noon – 1:30 pm

The future of ragtime depends on the ragtime playing youth of today...all our youth performers are in this show.

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Sunday Afternoon Concert

Sun, 22, 3 – 5 pm

Afternoon sets featuring Tom Bopp, Adam Swanson, Matt Tolentino, Larisa Migachyov, and more.

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Musicians