SACRAMENTO RAGTIME

SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

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Due to another event following the

February session of the SRS, the meeting

will be moved up one hour.

The SRS will meet from

noon to 3 P.M.

on February 27th.

Press Release

M

ark your calendars for the 11th An-

nual Fresno Flats Ragtime and Vin-

tage Music Festival to be held March 11-13

in Oakhurst. Friday and Saturday’s events

will begin at 2:00 P.M. in the School House

at the Fresno Flats Historical Park, 49777

School Road, and Sunday’s Finale concert,

also at 2:00 P.M. will be held at the

Oakhurst Lutheran Church, 39255 Black

Road.

At 5:30 P.M. on both Friday and Saturday

nights, the public is invited to join the per-

formers for an evening at the The Grind,

where a meal can be purchased. There will

be plenty of open piano time and others

are invited and most welcome to listen or

take part in all the musical fun.

With two pianos now housed at

Fresno Flats, there will be twice the fun.

This year’s lineup includes Fresno Flats’ reg-

ulars, pianists Tom Brier and The Brad-

shaws, Chris & Jack, with the Drivons,

Robyn and Steve, adding tuba, vocals and

percussion to the mix. This year’s special

By Fred Hoeptner

A

plethora of musical pleasures

awaited the goodly crowd that filled

Sacramento’s Red Lion Hotel to capacity

(and then some) for the 21st annual West

Coast Ragtime Festival. The festival

opened Friday, November 19, and closed

Sunday, November 21, having presented

138 hours of scintillating syncopated con-

certs, six hours of absorbing seminars, 18

hours of open piano, seven hours of dance

instruction, and uncounted hours of con-

vivial “after hours” festivities in six venues.

The remodeling project completed at the

hotel a little over a year ago has proved a

plus. J.B.’s Lounge is now an intimate ven-

ue for both dancers and listeners while the

elegant and capacious Martinique Ball-

room easily accommodates the major

shows and a smaller but adequate dance

floor. The remaining venues are arranged

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By Chris & Jack Bradshaw and Deborah Gale

S

ometimes you just get lucky and at this session Lady Luck was

shining on us. While many of the regulars were missing, a

newer face, Larisa Migacyhov popped in to play. And, it’s not of-

ten that we you get both Virginia and Marty together in the same

place at the same time. Lucky again! “Show and Tell” included

Bub’s new (refurbished antique) banjo, as pretty to look at with its

pearl inlays, as it was to hear. A good conversation starter was

Jack’s black cast on his left arm. He did manage to play three num-

bers with Ragnolia. Lewis’ recent birthday was celebrated with a

delicious chocolate cake (thank you, Petra!) See what ya’all missed!

Never a dull moment when SRS gets together..

RAGNOLIA RAGTETTE

Chris & Jack Bradshaw, three-hand piano; Robyn Drivon, tuba;

Steve Drivon, drums

Palm Leaf Rag Scott Joplin, 1903

Chiquilin de Bachin Astor Piazzolla, 1982

A Totally Different Rag May Aufderheide, 1910

Petra Sullivan, piano; Bub Sullivan, mandolin

Cuando escuches este vals Ansel Garrido, ca. 1919

Peach Blossoms Maude Gilmore, 1910

Larisa Migachyov, piano

Chocalate-Covered Cauliflower Larisa Migachyov, 2010

Ragtime Nightingale Joseph Lamb, 1915

Petra Sullivan, piano; Bub Sullivan, mandolin; Robyn Drivon,

tuba; Steve Drivon, drums

la Femme Fatale Christoph Schmetterer, 2010

Country Club Scott Joplin, 1909

Elliott Adams, piano

Alabama Jigger Edward Claypoole, 1913

Agitation Rag Robert Hampton, 1915

Orinoco C. Duane Crabb, 1909

Virginia Tichenor, piano

Virginia’s Blues Virginia Tichenor, 2003

Texas Fox Trot David Guion, 1915

Thriller May Aufderheide, 1909

THE PORCUPINE RAGTIME ENSEMBLE AND

THE COMBINED SRS CHORUS

Happy Birthday to Lewis Motisher

THE PORCUPINE RAGTIME ENSEMBLE

Elliott Adams, piano; Petra Sullivan, violin; Bub Sullivan, man-

dolin, banjo, *vocal; Sue Desper, flute, piccolo; Robyn Drivon,

tuba; Steve Drivon, drums

Pass Dat Possum Kerry Mills, 1909

*When Frances Dances with Me Sol Violinsky & Ben Ryan, 1921

Old Boston Post Road Galen Wilkes, 1984

*At the Codfish Ball Lew Pollack & Sidney Mitchell, 1936

Rastus on Parade Kerry Mills, 1895

Marty Eggers, piano

Cum Bac Rag Charles L. Johnson, 1911

Panama William Tyers, 1911

Kater Street Rag Bennie Moten, 1925

Virginia Tichenor, piano; Marty Eggers, piano

Chestnut Street in the 90’s Brun Campbell, before 1947

Peacherine Rag Scott Joplin, 1901

Brun Campbell Express Tom Shea, 1966

Elliott Adams, piano

Affinity Rag Irene Cozad, 1910

Ragtime Eyes W. C. Powell, 1907

A Tennessee Tantalizer Charles Hunter, 1900

Larisa Migachyov, piano

Chicken Fried Steak Larisa Migachyov, 2009

Sugar Cane Scott Joplin, 1908

Petra Sullivan, piano; Bub Sullivan, mandolin; Robyn Drivon,

tuba; Steve Drivon, drums

Razor Club Walter V. Ullner, 1900

Nobody Loves No Baby (Like My Baby Loves Me)

Walter Donaldson, 1931

guests are pianist/composer, Larisa Migachyov, a popular ragtime

festival performer, and the dynamic youth performer, Will Perkins

who has accumulated many medals and honors at California and

National ragtime competitions. You can look forward to a rousing

good time. Everyone is cordially invited.

Donations will be gratefully accepted at the door for the

Fresno Flats Historical Park and for the Musicians. For more in-

formation about the festival call Bea Walden at (559) 641-2272.

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fter appearing at many festivals,

youth ragtime performer, Will Per-

kins, will be giving his first Ragtime and

Stride Concert on Friday, February 25th,

at 7:00 P.M. at Trinity United Presbyterian

Church, 1600 Carver Road, in Modesto.

Will has been a first place winner of

several West Coast Ragtime Society Youth

Competitions over the past four years. In

2010, he came in fourth at the World

Championship Old-Time Piano Playing

Contest in Peoria, Illinois. Will has ap-

peared at the Ragtime Corners of the Sacra-

mento Jazz Jubilee, and the Scott Joplin,

West Coast, and Sutter Creek ragtime fest-

ivals. Will will also be performing for the

first time at the Fresno Flats Ragtime and

Vintage Music Festival next month.

This concert, benefitting 4 year-old

Bryce Clayton who suffers from a rare re-

gressive disorder, is Will’s Senior Project

from Riverbank High School. Tickets are

$5 each, either at the door or can be

ordered ahead of time by calling 209-869-

6240. Don’t miss this historic event as Will

plays his very first solo concert.

A

nother ragtime retreat weekend is in

the works with Sonny returning to

Chip Lusby's home, Skunk Hollow, in Sut-

ter Creek on Saturday, March 12th. The

concert will begin at 2:00 P.M. and tickets

are $20. Come for the concert and stay for

the weekend! For more information, you

can reach Chip at: sutterchip@Yahoo.com.

Plan to stay on for

a potluck dinner

and open piano

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through the week-

end. Chip can

house a few of

you so let him

know early, if you

need accommoda-

tions.

strictly for listening.

This year, by my strictly unofficial

count, 55 different acts—individual per-

formers, seminar speakers, and musical ag-

gregations—graced the stages with a wide

variety of styles and presentations. Eight-

een hours of open piano sessions accom-

modated casual performers who signed up

to play for fifteen-minute sets. The roll of

ensembles, catering to dancers as well as

listeners, included the Crown Syncopators,

the Fresno High School Warrior Band, the

Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra, the Pacific

Coast Ragtime Orchestra, the Porcupine

Ragtime Ensemble, Ragnolia Ragtette, and

the Raspberry Jam Band.

Special Events

Special features included two silent

movies emceed by David Shepherd,

renowned film preservationist and accom-

panied by Frederick Hodges on the piano;

a cakewalk demonstration; a session with

that master of witty asides Ian Whitcomb

with his wife Regina featuring his ragtime

ukulele; gems from the Whitney-Warner

collection played by Nan Bostick with the

Ragtime Skedaddlers string band; a youth

master class sensitively coached by Richard

Dowling; a demonstration of the Yamaha

Disklavier (“the modern player piano”); a

concert by the Pacific Coast Ragtime Or-

chestra with vocalist soprano Joyce Grant,

Scott Joplin’s great-great grandniece; and

much more. The plenitude of pleasures

made choosing among events a frustrating

chore.

Advertised as a preview of coming at-

tractions, Friday evening’s “Festival

Sampler” hosted by Jack Rummel attracted

a nearly full house. The eleven-piece Helio-

trope Ragtime Orchestra from San Diego

opened, authentically recapturing the spirit

of 1910 with a medley of “Honolulu Rag”

and “Cotton Time.” Thirteen year-old Mor-

gan Siever, sporting an elegant black and

white chapeau, followed with a roaring “Ti-

ger Rag.” Explaining “stride is a jazz style,”

Mike Lipskin demonstrated with Cole Port-

er’s “It’s All Right with Me,” employing at-

tractive alternative chord progressions.

Calling his specialty “things that most

people never heard of,” Dick Zimmerman

offered Ford Dabney’s fine rag “Anoma.”

Scott Joplin specialist Scott Kirby, return-

ing to the festival after an absence of many

years, contributed the classic “Pine Apple

Rag.” The spirit of vaudeville prevailed as

Big Mama Sue on washboard and Fast Ed-

die on banjo sang and kibitzed their way

through “The Curse of an Aching Heart.”

Frenetic pianist Jeff Barnhart joined the

act for “Fidgety Feet,” with a splendid

banjo solo by Eddie. Classically trained pi-

anist Larisa Migachyov restored equanimity

with her composition in the nostalgic

mold dedicated to her mother “Hot

Chocolate Rag.” Youthful Adam Swanson

on piano assisted Ian Whitcomb and his

uke to narrate “The Terrible War in

Snyder’s Grocery Store.” Viennese pianist

Christof Schmetterer restored decorum

with his stately composition in the style of

Joseph F. Lamb, “Constancy.” Bob Pinsker

unearthed an unpublished stride composi-

tion of Willie “The Lion” Smith from

1925 which he had reconstructed from a

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lead sheet, “Spanish Rag.” Vaudeville re-

turned as Frederick Hodges began playing

and vivacious Ann Gibson, sparkling in an

elegant rose dress, stealthily advanced

across the stage to the microphone to sing

Irving Berlin’s “Everybody Step.” Stride

specialist Paul Asaro demonstrated his mas-

tery of the genre with James P. Johnson’s

“After Tonight.” Swiss ragtimer Martin

Jäger offered his entry in the Scott Joplin

Foundation composition contest, the

melodic “Orient Express Rag” composed

in the classic rag style. Jeff Barnhart as-

sumed the piano bench and announced

that he would play all the instrumental

parts for the New Orleans marching band

tune, “High Society Rag.” This he pro-

ceeded to do, including the famed clarinet

obbligato. He then called wife and flutist

Anne and drummer Danny Coots to the

stage to form the Ivory and Gold trio and

to slow the tempo with the sentimental jazz

tune “Blackberry Winter.” To cap the con-

cert, Jeff called pianist Carl Sonny Leland

onstage, and after a stately beginning the

two stomped through a duet arrangement

of the pop tune of the 1920s “Song of the

Wanderer.”

Saturday afternoon a full house at the

Martinique Ballroom joined host Jeff

Barnhart in celebrating the ragtime of a

century ago. Barnhart provided perspect-

ive. In 1910 you could learn how to play

ragtime at one of Axel Christensen’s chain

of music schools. If you had an auto-

mobile, you were one of 8,000, and could

cruise along at a speed limit of 10 mph.

Only 6% of Americans had graduated

from high school. And, the dance of the

hour was the grizzly bear, acknowledged in

the “Grizzly Bear Rag” (Botsford) played by

the guitarist duo Craig Ventresco and

Meredith Axelrod, Meredith vocalizing.

Other salutes to 1910 included Dick Zim-

merman with “Chatterbox Rag” (Botsford);

15-year old Jusenta Yu with “Stop Time

Rag” (Joplin); Ragnolia Ragtette with

“Champagne Rag” (Lamb); Porcupine Rag-

time Ensemble with “Pitter Patter Rag”

(Daly); Nan Bostick and Frederick Hodges

duetting on “Cotton Time” (Daniels); Max

Keenlyside with “Hilarity Rag” (Scott); and

Richard Dowling with “The Entertainer’s

Rag” (Roberts), famed for its counterpoint

of “Yankee Doodle” and “Dixie.” Pianist

Frederick Hodges and thrush Anne Gib-

son, in elegant headdress and black boa, ex-

tolled the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 with Fanny

Brice’s rendition of “Lovey Joe” (Cook and

Jordan). The subject turned to arachnids as

the Ragtime Skedaddlers string band

offered “Golden Spider Rag” (Johnson)

and Jeff Barnhart “Speckled Spider Rag”

(French). Others performing were the

Crown Syncopators (Frederick Hodges, Vir-

ginia Tichenor, and Marty Eggers) and

Tom Brier with “Ophelia Rag” (Scott) ar-

ranged as a one-step; Tom Brier soloing on

“Rattlins” (Willis); Carl Sonny Leyland

who learned a new piece for the occasion,

“Jack Rabbit” (Garcia); and Adam Swan-

son and Marty Eggers, “King Chanticleer”

(Ayer). Jeff Barnhart concluded a varied

and enjoyable concert with the catchy “Pop-

corn Man” (Schwartz).

Sunday morning’s main attraction was

the always popular youth concert, with

youthful Stephanie Trick hosting. “It’s excit-

ing to see young people interested in old

music,” she said, and continued, “I’m too

old to play in this concert” eliciting a few

chuckles. Six young pianists, each playing

with professional aplomb, played two selec-

tions each: Morgan Siever (13), Carlyle IL,

“Charleston Rag” and “Tiger Rag”; Vin-

cent Johnson (18), Sierra Madre CA, “My

Pet” and “Sweet Pea” (his own composi-

tion); Serge Smirnov (15), Palo Alto CA,

“Cabbage Leaf” (Copeland) and “Good

Gravy” (Belding); Will Perkins (17), Riverb-

ank CA, “White Chapel” (Waller) and

“Sweet Georgia Brown” (Don Ewell ar-

rangement); Adam Swanson (18), Shenan-

doah IA, “Chevy Chase” (Blake) and

“Alabamy Bound” (both his own elaborate

arrangements); and Max Keenlyside (18),

Charlottetown PE Canada, “Northern

Lights Rag” (his own composition) and

“Oh, Canada” (his stride arrangement fol-

lowing a majestic opening). The consensus

was that ragtime’s future is secure.

Seminars

Nan Bostick arranged and hosted a

full program of six lectures to stimulate the

intellect, all of which attracted sizable

crowds.

Bruce Vermazen’s illustrated talk

“Frisco 1910, Entertainers in the Paris of

America,” explored post-quake San Fran-

cisco and the social forces and musicians

that shaped it. Open prostitution and

gambling prevailed in its notorious café dis-

trict where entertainers such as pianist

Mike Bernard, purported ragtime king of

the world, held forth. Prominent denizens

of the district profiled included Jay

Roberts, composer of “Entertainer’s Rag”

and opium addict who committed suicide;

the Hedges Brothers, Elvin and Freddie, en-

tertainers; and Art Hickman, theater man-

ager and later hotel orchestra leader. In the

“struggle between joy and reform,” reform

ultimately prevailed.

This year’s youth scholar was 18-year

old Vincent Johnson, whose visual and aud-

itory presentation “You Tell ‘Em Ivories!

The Novelty Pianists” was professional in

every respect. He profiled 12 pianists who

specialized in the post-ragtime genre

known as “novelty piano.” Vincent ex-

plained that whereas ragtime focused on

syncopation, novelty piano usually in-

cluded syncopation but focused on “ad-

vanced harmonies and frisky rhythmic

figures.” While Charlie Straight seems to

have initially defined the genre, Zez Con-

frey is famed as “the king.” Some of the

others were Roy Bargy, Fred Elizalde, Rube

Bloom, Arthur Schutt, Billy Mayerl, and

Lothar Perl.

Stride pianist, composer, record produ-

cer, and attorney Mike Lipskin’s objective

was “Erasing Myths about Stride Piano.”

He compared stride and non-stride styles

with live and recorded examples. He called

stride “a jazz piano style.” It needn’t be

fast. Lack of immediate communication

fostered distinct and individual stride

styles. Dynamics and tension and release

are important elements. He bemoaned the

confusion of fast ragtime, such as that pur-

veyed by Jelly Roll Morton, with stride, ex-

plained that James P. Johnson brought

stride to its height, and named Count

Basie, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and

Art Tatum as prominent practitioners.

“Ragtime” generally meant songs

rather than instrumentals to listeners dur-

ing the ragtime era. Frederick Hodges sur-

veyed the scene “From Coon Tunes to

Broadway Hits: The Ragtime Song,” pro-

fusely illustrated with photos of ragtime

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singers and sheet music from the era.

Hodges emphasized the need to under-

stand the perspective of the time as Ann

Gibson sang “All Coons Look Alike to

Me,” by black entertainer Ernest Hogan,

which had started the coon song craze.

Hogan did not understand or employ the

term as a disparagement. Ragtime songs

were heard in vaudeville theaters, Broad-

way shows, cabarets, nickelodeon theaters,

and were on piano rolls and phonograph

records. But, as Hodges explained, the mu-

sic business was far from sweetness and joy

as numerous contentious issues, such as

the right to collect royalties, roiled the busi-

ness and resulted in repeated litigation.

Richard Zimmerman, ragtime per-

former, historian, and editor of the former

Rag Times, related how ragtime was nur-

tured in the levee district of south Chica-

go. The district formed after the great fire

of 1871 in the section of older buildings

that remained unburned and was named

after the immigrants from the South who

settled there among proliferating gambling

dens, brothels, and saloons. Not being al-

lowed to perform at the 1893 World’s

Columbian Exposition, African-American

musicians gathered in the district, which

was a short train ride away. Dick specu-

lated that that’s where Scott Joplin and his

band would have played, and when visitors

went home they carried the new music,

whatever it sounded like, with them. Cit-

ing some mentions in a black newspaper of

rags being played in Leavenworth, Kansas,

and Kansas City a few months after the

fair closed, Dick called the fair “the most

important event in the spread of this mu-

sic.”

Consummate entertainer, musician,

and humorist Terry Waldo opened by an-

nouncing, “This hour is a plug for the new

book.” Phil Schaap, Curator at Jazz at Lin-

coln Center, had facilitated a republication

of Terry’s 1976 hardcover book This is Rag-

time, which was for sale in the festival store.

The new edition includes all color photos

and a “Conclusion” section updating rag-

time’s story to January, 2009. Terry’s talk

was a conversational compendium of facts,

observations, and opinions, drawn from

the pages of his book. Some of his percept-

ive quotes: “The meaning of ‘ragtime’ has

changed from its beginning right down to

the present. In different eras it has meant

different things.” “When ragtime is intro-

duced, all at once it appears everywhere in

the country, and no one knows quite

where it came from.” “I’ve come increas-

ingly to believe that our whole history of

popular music turns around the points

when African-American music becomes

part of the mainstream. The ragtime era

was one of those times when somehow

whatever was going on in the black subcul-

ture becomes part of popular music.”

Other Features of Note

Friday a concert hosted by Jack Rum-

mel recognized Terra Verde, a genre of gen-

erally newly composed ragtime-related

music named by David Thomas Roberts

about fifteen years ago and often the sub-

ject of controversy among ragtime fans. Per-

formers Scott Kirby, Frank French, and

Roberts, all of whom were instrumental in

the Terra Verde movement, played ex-

amples of pieces that they considered rep-

resentative, mostly their own compositions.

However, when asked for a definition,

Kirby declined commenting, “I could

spend an hour explaining what it is.” Sever-

al of the pieces presented seemed formless

and wandering to this reviewer and re-

ceived tepid audience reaction. However,

French’s performances of Hal Isbitz’s tango

“At Midnight” and his own “On the Trail

of the Conestoga Wagons,” and Roberts’

performances of his own “Memories of a

Missouri Confederate,” “Discovery,” and

“Franklin Avenue” received enthusiastic ac-

claim.

Scott Kirby, returning to the festival

after many years, continued to engage the

roots and relatives of ragtime in his solo

set. These included “Latin cousins”—a Mex-

ican waltz “Caperusita,” a Brazilian tango

“Odeon,” and a mazurka “Rosa of Cara-

cas”—and pieces from the pre-ragtime

era—John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan,” and

a medley of American songs Aura Lee,

Shenandoah, “America the Beautiful,” and

“Beautiful Dreamer”—to enthusiastic audi-

ence applause.

Renowned composer David Thomas

Roberts pleased his many fans with several

sets including an unscheduled surprise per-

formance on Sunday afternoon where he

took requests. The sense of nostalgia was

palpable listening to “Waterloo Girls,”

“Roberto Clemente,” “Through the Bot-

tomlands,” and “Kreole.” He concluded

with two of his most recent commissions,

“Discovery” and “Intermezzo #1.”

The Ragtime Skedaddlers—Dennis

Pash, mandolin-banjo; Nick Robinson,

mandolin; and Dave Krinkel, guitar—ably

continued the tradition of string band rag-

time. Starting their Saturday afternoon set

with “Impecunious Davis” and the com-

ment, “We identify with it,” they contin-

ued with “Ragtime Chimes,” a mandolin

arrangement of “Maple Leaf Rag,” “Cuban

Bells,” and others.

At 4:00 P.M. Sunday evening all other

venues closed and one and all congregated

in the Martinique Ballroom for the diverse

hour-long finale spectacular, hosted this

year by Jeff Barnhart and featuring 19 dif-

ferent acts. Some highlights: The six-piece

Raspberry Jam Band with “King

Chanticleer”; Ivory and Gold (Jeff and

Anne Barnhart, piano and flute, and

Danny Coots, drums) with “I Got

Rhythm”; Richard Dowling and Stephanie

Trick with “Doll Dance” arranged for two

pianos; Meredith Axelrod, ukulele and vo-

cal, Danny Coots drums, and Paul Asaro

muted trumpet with “Blue River”; Carl

Sonny Leyland and Jeff Barnhart with

“Weary Blues”; and the Crown Syncopat-

ors and Tom Brier with a rip roaring “Lion

Tamer Rag.” It was time for kudos as Festiv-

al Director Virginia Tichenor thanked the

audience and performers and Jeff Barnhart

retorted, “Viva Virginia and the festival

committee,” resulting in a standing ova-

tion. Six pianists on two pianos followed

with a “musical chairs” version of “Maple

Leaf Rag.” Concert Coordinator Petra Sulli-

van acknowledged the volunteers, the

sound crew, the hotel staff, and the

donors, and presented Virginia with a big

basket. As the strains of “Peacherine Rag”

by the Porcupine Ragtime Ensemble died

away, it occurred to me that this festival

had had it all—piano, orchestral, and string

band ragtime, stride, vaudeville, stomps,

boogie-woogie, erudition—and performers

who were not only technically superlative

but who seemed to be enjoying every

minute of it as well.

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Please let us know as soon as possible about upcoming ragtime or ragtime related events so we may list them.

Feb 23 The Raspberry Jam Band

Mar 2 Bob Ringwald

Mar 9 Frederick Hodges

Mar 16 The Bob Hirsch Trio

Mar 23 Bill Dendle with guitarist.

Mar 30 Bob Roman's Cell Block Seven

For more information call 916-987-7434 or e-mail Bs25ss28@aol.com

Feb 22 Frederick Hodges

Mar 1 Crown Syncopators

Mar 8 Carl Sonny Leyland

Mar 15 Virginia Tichenor

Mar 22 Marty Eggers

Mar 29 Frederick Hodges

For more information call 415-362-5125

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t’s full steam ahead for the 13th Annual

Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, to be

held August 12-14, 2011. Come join us as

the Main Street of Sutter Creek moves

back a century in time with costumed per-

formers presenting high spirited, live rag-

time music. A pre-festival gathering will be

held Thursday, August 11th, 5:00 P.M. at

the Greenhorn Creek Resort in Angels

Camp.

Expect a loaded-with-ragtime fun-filled

musical weekend featuring a Silent Movie

Night with Frederick Hodges and Keith

Taylor, Two Gala Festival Concerts, with

our headliners, a Future of Ragtime Con-

cert featuring youth performers and 5 prac-

tically nonstop venues to choose from.

The list of invited performers include

Patrick Aranda, The Bradshaws, Tom Bri-

er, Crown Syncopators, Marty Eggers, Fred-

erick Hodges, Carl Sonny Leyland,

Stevens Price, Ragtime Skedaddlers, Rasp-

berry Jam Band, Ragnolia Ragtette, Ray

Skjelbred, Squeek Steele, Sullivans &

Drivons, Keith Taylor, Virginia Tichenor,

and more to be announced later. You

won’t want to miss a note. More details

will follow.

All-Events badges, which include the

two special concerts, and Silent Movie

Night are now on sale for the Early Bird

Price of $60, if ordered by July 15, 2011.

The price increases to $70 after that. Youth

16 and under attend free with a paying

adult. ($20 service charge for refunds re-

quested prior to 7/15; no refunds after

7/15.) Day badges and individual concert

tickets will also be available. Badge order

forms may be found at www.suttercreekrag-

time.com. For more information call: (209)

405-1563 or e-mail: motherloderag-

time@comcast.net.

SACRAMENTO RAGTIME SOCIETY

1st & 3rd Sunday Sacramento Banjo Band, Straw Hat Pizza, 2929 Mather Field Rd, Rancho Cordova, 2:00-4:00 P.M.

1st Sunday Classic Ragtime Society of Indiana, Info: Josi Beeler 317-359-6452, josibee@sbcglobal.net or Irene Weinberg 317-578-7883 or

turtleindy@aol.com, [Even-numbered months only]

1st Sunday Portland Ragtime Society, Elevated Coffee, 5261 Northeast M. L. King Blvd, Portland, OR, 3:00-6:00 P.M.

1st Sunday Friends of Scott Joplin-Ragtime Rendezvous, The Pub Above at Dressel's, 419 N Euclid St. St Louis, MO, 5:30-8:30 P.M.

1st Sunday Pacific Coast Ragtime Orchestra, Casa de Flores, 737 Walnut St., San Carlos, 4:00-6:00 P.M., $10 Donation at door, Info: 650-355-

1731 or 650-593-2284, [Even numbered months only] Price includes light refreshments.

2nd Sunday Mont Alto Ragtime & Tango Orchestra-Tea Dance, Temple Events Center Uptown, 16th & Pearl, Denver, CO, Lessons 1:30-2:00

P.M. Dancing 2:00-5:00 P.M., Info: 303-655-9413 or 303-449-5962

Last Sunday Rose Leaf Ragtime Club, Aztec Hotel's Mayan Restaurant, 311 W. Foohill Blvd., Monrovia, 2:00-5:00 P.M., Participating musicians

free, donation, Info: 626-358-3231 or 818-766-2384

Sunday Devine's Jug Band, On the Corner Cafe, Divisadero & Oak, San Francisco, 2:00-4:00 P.M.

Sunday Brad Kay, The Unurban, 3301 West Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, 2:00-4:00 P.M.

Tuesday Victorian Dances, Lake Merritt Dance Center Lounge-Oakland Veterans Bldg., 200 Grand Ave, Oakland, 7:00 P.M. Beginning & Inter-

mediate classes and da, $8, Info: 530-759-9278 or www.vintagewaltz.com

Tuesday Piano Ragtime Cutting Contest, Frederick's Music Lounge, 4454 Chippewa, St. Louis, MO, 7:00-9:00 P.M., Info: 314-968-2635 or rag-

timefest@aol.com, Contestants appear on the Ragtime St. Louis TV show.

Tuesday Ragtime and Vintage Piano Music, Pier 23, San Francisco, 5:00-8:00 P.M., (See separate listing)

2nd Wednesday Marty Eggers & Virginia Tichenor-Hot Ragtime & Classic Jazz Piano, The Belrose Theater, 1415 5th Ave. San Rafael, 5:30-8:00

P.M., Info: 415-454-6422 or 510-655-6728, Wine bar, beer & light food available. No cover charge.

Wednesday Happy Time Banjos, Soprano's Pizza, 373 Main St., Redwood City, 7:00 P.M., Info: 408-253-3676

Wednesday Peninsula Banjo Band, Cabrito's, 685 E El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, 7:00 P.M., Info: 408-993-2263

Wednesday Craig Ventresco & Meredith Axelrod, Cafe Divine, 1600 Stockton St. (across from Washington Square) San Francisco, 7:30-9:30

P.M.IInfo: 415-986-3414

Wednesday East Bay Banjo Band, Round Table Pizza, 1938 Oak Park Blvd. Pleasant Hill, 7:30-8:30 P.M., Info: 925-372-0553

Wednesday Ragtime & Vintage Music, Straw Hat Pizza, Rancho Cordova, 6:30-9:00 P.M., Free, (See separate listing)

17 Mimi Blais in Concert, Larisa Migachyov's House, 745 Stanford Ave, Palo Alto, 7 to 10 P.M., , Info: Please reserve through Larisa at lar-

isA.M.gachyov.com or 650-218-5480,

19 Mimi Blais at Skunk Hollow Retreat, Chip Lusby's house, 50 Gold Dust Trail, Sutter Creek, 2:00-5:00 P.M. Saturday, $25 Advance sale,

$28 at the door, Info: sutterchip@yahoo.com or 626-806-3021, Pot luck and afterglow to follow Sat. & Sun.

20 Mimi Blais in Concert, The Trabucco Ranch, Nevada City, 3:00 P.M., $25 Advance, $28 at the door, Info: Call Bill Trabucco 530-273-

4252 or billtrabucco@saber.net for directions and more info., RSVP by 10 Feb

20 The Raspberry Jam Band at annual Music For Humanity, Pioneer Methodist Church, 1338 Lincoln Way, Auburn, 2:00 P.M., This concert

benefits Habitat for Humanity & local food closet.

27* Sacramento Ragtime Society Session, Red Lion Sacramento Inn, 1401 Arden Way, Sacramento, Noon to 3:00 P.M., Info: 916-457-3324 or

www.Sacramento Ragtime.com, NOTE!! Special time for this month only.

6 The Raspberry Jam Band, Reutlinger Mansion, 824 Grove St., San Francisco, 2:00 P.M., $20, Info: Reservations required, contact Kitty

Wilson 408-720-8365 or kitty_w2003@sbcglobal.net, There may be bus transportation available, contact Julia Riley 530-888-6493

11-13 Fresno Flats Ragtime and Vintage Music Festival, Historical Park & Oakhust Lutheran Church, Park-49777 road 427, Church-road 426

Oakhust, Fri/Sat 2:00 P.M.-Park, Sunday 2:00 P.M.-Church, Info: Bea at 559-641-2272 or bkwalden@sti.net, Performers: The Brad-

shaws, Tom Brier, The Drivons,Larisa Migachyov and Will Perkins

18-20 & 25-27 Ragtime-The Musical, Marysville Auditorium, 1919 B st, Marysville, 7:00 P.M. Fri. & Sat., 2:00 P.M. Sun., $10, Info: 530-749-6157

20 Carl Sonny Leyland, The John Ulrich Piano Series House Concerts, El Sobrante, 2:00 P.M., $20, Info: 510-223-9587 or julrich2847@att.net,

Advance registration required

27* Sacramento Ragtime Society Session, Red Lion Sacramento Inn, 1401 Arden Way, Sacramento, 1:00-4:00 P.M., Info: 916-457-3324 or Sacra-

mentoRagtime.com

15 Sarah Vanegas and Frank French, Latin American Piano Traditions, Piedmont Piano Company, 1728 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, 8 P.M.,

Suggested donation $25 for individuals, Info: To reserve space please visit: www.pamusicfest.org or e-mail: info@pamusicfest.org

24* Sacramento Ragtime Society Session, Red Lion Sacramento Inn, 1401 Arden Way, Sacramento, 1:00-4:00 P.M., Info: 916-457-3324 or

www.SacramentoRagtime.com

30 The Ragnolia Ragtette in Concert, Chip Lusby's house, Skunk Hollow, Sutter Creek, 2:00 P.M.P$20, Info: sutterchip@yahoo.com

SACRAMENTO RAGTIME SOCIETY

SACRAMENTO RAGTIME SOCIETY

c/o Merv GrahamPO Box 2286Grass Valley CA 95945

Mondays The Ragtime Machine, 9:00—10:00 P.M. Host: David Reffkin, www.kusf.org

Sundays Syncopation Station, KDHX 88.1 FM, St. Louis, Missouri, 4:00—5:30 P.M. Host: Vann Ford, www.kdhx.org

Thursdays Ragtime America, KGNU, 88.5 FM, Boulder, Colorado, 8:00—9:00 P.M. Host: Jack Rummel. www.kgnu.org

Continuous Rocky Mountain Ragtime, Ragtime 24 hours a day, www.live365.com/stations/rmragtime

Thursday Oakland Banjo Band, Porky's Pizza Palace, 1221 Manor Blvd. (corner of Farnsworth) San Leandro, 7:30-9:30 P.M., Info: 510-357-

4323

2nd Friday Chico's Ragtime/Tin Pan Alley Sessions, The Terraces, 2750 Sierra Sunrise Terrace, Chico, 6:30-8:30 P.M. Info: Bernie or Bob Lo-

Faso 530-894-6854, b_lofaso@hotmail.com

4th Friday Vintage Dance & Waltz Lessons, Finnish Hall, 1970 Chestnut, Berkeley, Lesson 8:00 P.M., Dance: 9:00 P.M. to Midnight, $6 for

dance; $8 lesson, Info: 530-759-9278 or www.vintagewaltz.com

Friday Friday Night Waltz, 1st United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton St. (& Cowper), Palo Alto, Lessons: 7:00-9:00 P.M., Dancing 9:00

P.M.-12 A.M., Info: 650-326-6265, Check web site to confirm time and location, www.fridaynightwaltz.com

Friday Keith Taylor, Mad Matilda's, 1917 Main St, Baker City, OR, Info: 541-519-4072

1st Saturday San Francisco Banjo Band, Molloy's, 1655 Mission Road, Colma, 7:30 P.M., Info: 650-692-7878

2nd Saturday San Francisco Starlight Orchestra, Little Switzerland, 19080 Riverside Drive, Sonoma, 2:00-5:00 P.M., $15, Info: www.sanfranciscost-

arlightorchestra.com

2nd Saturday The Valley Ragtime Stomp, Henri's Restaurant, 21601 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, 1:00-4:00 P.M., Info: 818-766-2384 or www.valley-

ragtimestomp.blogspot.com

2nd Saturday East Bay Waltz, Veterans bldg, 200 Grand ave (at Harrison), Oakland, 7:00 P.M.-Midnight, Info: eastbaywaltz.com

3rd Saturday Cascade Ragtime Society-Ragtime Jam, Noah's Ark, Winston, OR, Info: 541-784-1261, [Even numbered months only]

3rd Saturday Mother Lode Ragtime Society, Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, 51 Main St. (Hwy 49), Sutter Creek, 7:30-9:30 P.M., Info: 209-267-

0543 or sodajerk@volcano.net, [Odd numbered months only]