Famous ragtime pianist Johnny Maddox visited Columbia this week as the guest of honor at the Blind Boone Ragtime Festival. In the height of his career in the 1950s, Maddox performed with names like ...

Wenrich's mother began teaching him piano and organ when he was very young. By the time he was a teenager, he had discovered ragtime and was starting to write his own compositions. His folks were ...

Internationally famous ragtime scholar and pianist Reginald R. Robinson will present a concert and conversation at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at Forest View Educational Center Theater, 2121 S. Goebbert ...

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 ...