Ragtime Organizations Listed on West Coast Ragtime Society Site

Ragtime Organizations & Performers

Bernie Pardon LoFaso Ragtime Compositions. Volume one though six are available.
Folios present compositions in piano scores and lead sheets with a midi CD made with Finale Allegro.
Contact: Bernie LoFaso: 2701 Sierra Sunrise Terrace #512, Chico, CA 95928. B_LoFaso@hotmail.com

Bitterroot Valley Ragtime Society meets the first Saturday of each month, 2-4 p.m. at the Hamilton Pub in Corvallis, Montana. For further information visit the BVRS Facebook page, call (406) 961-3245, or email BitterootRagtime@aol.com.

Cascade Ragtime Society - Roseburg, Oregon Sponsored the now-defunct Cascade Ragtime Festival in Roseburg, Oregon. Now sponsors the Shaniko Ragtime & Vintage Music Festival in Shaniko, Oregon. Contact Keith Taylor at (541) 837-3495 or check out Chin's Restaurant in Roseburg where Mr. Taylor performs every Saturday evening.

Central Wisconsin Ragtime And Early Jazz Society The Central Wisconsin Ragtime And Early Jazz Society is located in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The Society can be contacted at:
809 S. Apple Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449
or by contacting Steve Standiford, President at (715) 384-6898 or CentralWisconsinRagtime@Yahoo.com

The Classic Ragtime Piano web site is the creation of Ted Tjaden. The site includes lots of information on ragtime piano with links to ragtime sheet music in the public domain. Future additions will include MP3 ragtime recordings by Ted of featured rags.

For over twenty years, the Friends of Scott Joplin has been your source for great ragtime music in St. Louis. In addition to working closely with the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site to present great performers from around the country, their Ragtime Rendezvous is (usually) on the first Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. in the New Rosebud Cafe, adjacent to the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site on the corner of Delmar and Beaumont, one block west of Jefferson in St Louis' midtown neighborhood. The Ragtime Rendezvous is open-piano, but they encourage folks to bring along any other instruments as well, or, if to sing is your thing, feel free to get up and sing your favorite ragtime song. Check their website for local ragtime gigs and other events as well.

The Great Canadian Ragtime Society. Membership fee is $20 ($30 Canadian). The Society publishes a newsletter: The Ragtime Special. Send check for membership to:
TGCRS, 32 Alabaster Rd., Etobicoke, Ont. Canada M9V 4W3

For over a quarter century, the Kecskemét Jazz Foundation has hosted the annual Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Kecskemét, Hungary. If you can't make it there in person, the festival is streamed live on their web site.

Kansas City Ragtime and Beyond is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Kansas City's legacy of ragtime music. K. C. Ragtime Revelry, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Ragtime music as part of Kansas City's history. They produced a small festival for five years, from 1993 through 1997. Now, they have 3 or 4 small concerts throughout the year instead. They publish a quarterly Newsletter: Revelry Rag. KCRB may be contacted as follows:
Kansas City Ragtime Revelry, 1212 West 66th St., KC MO 64113
Email: Jerry@LaneseGroup.com (Jerry Lanese, president). Phone: (913) 491-6923 or 913-831-1860

Maple Leaf Club Publish bi-monthly newsletter. Subscription rate for US and Canada is $22 first year and $17 renewal. Corresponding rates for foreign Air Mail are $29 and $24. Mailing address is:
The Maple Leaf Club
12157 Paisley Drive
Loves Park, Il 61111

MONROVIA SOUND STUDIO - RAGTIME · BLUES · HOT PIANO Features the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Frank Melrose, J. Lawrence Cook, Joseph Lamb, Dick Wellstood, together with other notable Ragtime, Blues and Hot Piano performers. The superbly crafted MIDI files on the website have been arranged and sequenced by John Farrell, Warren S. Trachtman, Irwin Schwartz, and ‘Perfessor’ Bill Edwards.

Mother Lode Ragtime Society — The society meets from 7:00 - 9:30 PM on the 3rd Saturday (usually) of odd-numbered months except November at the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, 51 Main Street, Sutter Creek, CA. Call/write: Mother Lode Ragtime Society, c/o Dan & Marilyn Norton, 11310 Prospect Drive #10 pmb 12, Jackson, CA 95642. (209) 405-1563. motherloderagtime@hotmail.com

In addition to being a museum dedicated to the preservation of films from the silent film era, the organization regularly presents Saturday Night Movies with live piano accompaniment.

For museum information and schedules, visit their web site.

Northern Virginia Ragtime Society Has bi-monthly concerts in the Washington, D. C. area.

Old Town Music Hall is a small 1920's theater located in El Segundo, California fully restored to its original elegance. Home of the Might Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, The OTMH presents movies of the silent film era and live music performances, including ragtime and a ragtime music festival. The theater began as a concept that started in 1958 by Bill Coffman and Bill Field with the purchase of the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ from the Fox West Coast Theater in Long Beach CA. See their web site for movie and live performance information. (310) 322-2592. The OTMH is located 140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA 90245.

Orange County Ragtime Society — OCRS was founded by ragtime pianist and composer Eric Marchese. One of the main purposes of OCRS is to allow the public to hear the many fine pianists who live and perform in Southern California who specialize in American pop music circa 1895-1930. OCRS held its first meeting November 10, 2001. OCRS puts on the annual RagFest, Orange County's Ragtime Music Festival.

Organized in 1963, the Peninsula Banjo Band is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation of the 4-string banjo and the music typically associated with it. Come Listen to the Band Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30pm at Bogey's Pizza, 5039 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118. Contact us here.

The PORTLAND RAGTIME SOCIETY meets on the first Sunday of every month, 3 to 6 pm at Elevated Coffee, 5261 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, Portland, Oregon, 971-255-1296. Come and play and/or listen and LIVE!! All instruments welcome. We were established in Jan. 2006, with Mark as our founder and president. We have no dues, no newsletter, no website and no other officers YET. For more info contact Mark Nuismer at (503) 963-8238 or MNuismer@aol.com

Benjamin Intartaglia's extensive web site dedicated to the history of Ragtime in France includes a vast downloadable sheet music section, a discography and listing of classical and contemporary French ragtime composers with titles and many downloadable sheet music scores. "Ragtime history in France begins with the coming of the John Philip Sousa's U.S. Marine Band in Paris, at the 1900 World Exposition..." This site is a gem!

Ragtime Usenet Newsgroup — The original home of ragtime on the internet was the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.ragtime, founded in the mid-1990s.

The Ragtime Society of Colorado has two to four concerts each year in Denver. Our venue is a wonderful concert room at Onofrio’s Piano Co. A flyer for each upcoming performance is mailed to members three weeks before each concert. Concert performances will be posted here as they are scheduled. To obtain a ticket or membership from the Society please contact the president, Colleen Vander Hoek at 303 979 4353. Society address: 8300 S Zephyr St, Denver, CO 80128. Information: 303-979-8933

Formed in December 2005, the 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 Jazz Jubilee, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival as well as many other venues. Interested in playing diverse works from classical music to contemporary music...featuring works of contemporary composers, including those of their pianist, Tom Brier.

Rose Leaf Ragtime Club This Southern California club meets on the last Sunday of each month, from 1:00 PM until about 4:00 PM in the banquet room of Wang's Place (a.k.a. Wang's Palace), located in Old Town Monrovia, at 120 E. Lemon Ave., just east of Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, CA 91606. The phone number is (626) 303-3701. Anyone interested in attending is invited to just "come on down" and be ready to be entertained with three hours of live ragtime and ragtime-related music! Admission is free to performers and a suggested $2 or $3 donation from non-performers.

Normally meets the last Sunday of each month (except May and November) from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Straw Hat Pizza at 2929 Mather Field Road in Rancho Cordova. SRS publishes a monthly newsletter for a $20 annual subscription. Subscription year runs from August 1 to July 31 of following year. Subscriptions beginning after August may be prorated. Payments should be made payable to Merv Graham. Newsletter editor: Lewis Motisher, 433 Lincoln Way, San Francisco, CA 94122. The membership coordinator is Merv Graham, P.O. Box 2286, Grass Valley, CA 95945. For further information, visit their website, call or write Bub or Petra Sullivan at (916) 457-3324 or bubpetra@comcast.net

San Antonio Ragtime Society — This small but enthusiastic ragtime society meets every other month at the Steinway Piano Gallery, San Antonio, TX. See their web site for details, or contact Jimmy Drury james.drury@att.net or Vicki McRae veemcrae@earthlink.net to be added to their mailing list.

Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation — The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation, Inc., is a not-for-profit corporation located at 114-116 East Main Street, Sedalia, MO 65301, whose purpose is dedicated to preserving and promoting an understanding and appreciation of ragtime music and its history worldwide, and further to promote Scott Joplin's contribution to ragtime music and the importance of Sedalia, Missouri, to ragtime history.

The Swedish Ragtime Home Page is run by Oleg Mezjuev who lives in Järfälla (north of Stockholm), Sweden. He was hooked on ragtime in 1985, and has been maintaining the Swedish Ragtime Home Page web site since 1996 when he first started sharing Swedish rags with other ragtime fans.

If you like Ragtime and other vintage music, join the Valley Ragtime Stomp on the 2nd Saturday of every month from 2 to 5 p.m. at Henri's Restaurant, 21601 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, Calif. It's a gathering of amateur and professional musicians who welcome newcomers to play, or just listen. No charge. Food and drink available.

Every year over Memorial Day weekend in Oxford, Mississippi (new home), the Old-Time Music Preservation Association (OMPA) stages the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest to educate people about old-time piano music written prior to 1940. This is a weekend packed with Ragtime, Tin-Pan Alley and Standard tunes played by amazing piano players.

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