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blind boone ragtime and early jazz festival

Sunday, May 31 through Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Jesse Auditorium
Individual concerts: $28, $33*
All-event pass, regular seating: $94*
All-event pass, premiere seating: $114*

Get tickets for:
Sunday 2 p.m. | Sunday 7 p.m. |
Monday 7 p.m. | Tuesday 7 p.m.

Or buy:
All-event pass (regular) |
All-event pass (premiere)

The Original "Blind" Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival features seminars, afterglows, and three days of outstanding concerts by the leading performers of ragtime and early jazz.

Among the featured events:

The Spirituals Concert, Sunday, May 31, 2 p.m. | BUY
The African tradition of multiple simultaneous rhythms in the creation of music entered the American culture through Spirituals — and evolved into construction of earliest musical compositions of the New World — syncopation, the signature feature of Ragtime. We celebrate this wonderful beginning in the leading event of the 2009 Blind Boone Ragtime & Early Jazz Festival. The New Orleans tradition of honoring and celebrating a life that passes into glory will be the concluding the afternoon’s segment. Featured performers include Morten Gunnar Larsen, Vernel Bagneris, Butch Thompson Trio, Frederick Hodges, Carl Sonny Leyland, Terry Waldo, Paul Asaro, and John Davis.

The Ragtime Concert, Sunday, May 31, 7 p.m. | BUY
Ragtime is the salient subgenre featured in the Sunday night concert. Morten Gunnar Larsen, Mimi Blais, Butch Thompson Trio, Paul Asaro, Terry Waldo, Frederick Hodges, and Adam Swanson will perform and spontaneous artistic events will occur.

The Early Jazz Concert, Monday, June 1, 7 p.m. | BUY
John Davis will perform Yamacraw: A Negro Rhapsody, a rarely heard, powerful composition by James P. Johnson.
Vernel Bagneris and Morten Gunnar Larsen will recreate the award-winning Off-Broadway musical, Jelly Roll, The Music, The Man. Vernel Bagneris wrote and choreographed the work that is based upon the Library of Congress interviews and recordings of the great man who claimed he invented Jazz.

The Stride, Boogie, and Blues Concert, Tuesday, June 2, 7 p.m. | BUY
Paul Asaro, Butch Thompson, Adam Swanson, Terry Waldo, and Frederick Hodges — the Stride Kings — will perform, plus the greatest Boogie and Blues pianist, Carl Sonny Leyland — along with spontaneous artistic events.

Complete listing of Festival activities (Microsoft Word doc)

Official "Blind" Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival event site

*Prices include standard $3-per-ticket handling fee. Online service charges may vary.

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