All over Duluth this weekend, musicians and audiences will be celebrating the American precursor to jazz, ragtime music, courtesy of the Lake Superior Ragtime Society and its annual Ragtime Festival. ...
BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...
"Ragtime" is a tragedy set to music. Unfortunately, the musical is also tragically out of date. Though well-staged by the Thalian Association under the direction of Michael Walton Jones, the story is ...
The life-altering moment for Mark Nuismer occurred 30 years ago when the teenager heard someone play "Maple Leaf Rag" at his Salt Lake City high school. "It was so hard, I thought I'd never be able to ...
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In 1984, Superior resident Tim Sandor traveled to a ragtime music festival in Toronto, Ontario. At the Detroit airport, flying out of Duluth, he met fellow enthusiast Yvonne Cloutier. Together they ...
At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...
One of the most distinctive recordings of 2017 came from the imagination of a Chicagoan who has done more to champion and rejuvenate ragtime music in the past 25 years than anyone. Reginald Robinson ...
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