Sunday & Monday, June 5 & 6 , 2011
Jesse Auditorium
Passes – $114 reserved, $94 Gen. Ad.
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Headquarters Hotel: Regency Inn – Downtown. Room Reservations at: 573-443-2090.
Mention Blind Boone Ragtime Festival for group rate $60/ night double or single/ including continental breakfast
Sunday, June 5
1-2:30 PM The Talented Young Turks Concert for Columbia’s Youth……. A FREE CONCERT
Performers: Tony Caramia, Eastman School of Music Professor of Piano, and Ragtime’s Talented Young Turks: Ben
Anderson, Will Perkins, Max Keenlyside and Adam Swanson.
MC: Steve Standiford
4:30 PM
A Tribute to Joseph Lamb for His Magnificent Legacy
with Honored Guest, Patricia Lamb Conn, Our First Lady of Ragtime,
Program:
Spiritual: Old Man River, Willie Cogshell accompanied by Morten Gunnar Larsen
Lamb Compositions: Sensation – Ben Anderson; Contentment Rag – Larisa Migachyov; Ethiopia Rag – Frederick Hodges;
Excelsior Rag – Max Keenlyside; Champagne Rag – Jack & Chris Bradshaw + Tom Brier & Larisa Migachyov; American
Beauty Rag – Tony Caramia; Ragtime Nightingale – Richard Dowling; Cleopatra Rag – Tom Brier; Reindeer Rag – Tom
Brier; Top Liner Rag – Will Perkins; Patricia Rag – Frederick Hodges; Bohemia – Adam Swanson; Video Interview by
Reginald Robinson; Alaskan Rag – Larisa Migachyov; Bird-Brain Rag – Scott Kirby; Cottontail Rag – Dalton Ridenhour; Hot
Cinders – Tom Brier; Ragtime Bobolink – Steve Standiford; Beehive Rag – Morten Larsen; Gee Kid! I Like You – Ståle Ytterli
& Morten Larsen; Follow the Crowd to Coney – Ståle Ytterli & Morten Larsen; One For Amelia – Dave Tucker
Narrator/MC/Co-Director: Jack Rummel
8 PM
Ragtime: Classic, Folk and New—and A Theatre Finale
Performers: Willie Cogshell accompanied by Frederick Hodges, Ben Anderson, Reginald Robinson, Terry Waldo, Craig
Ventresco, Meredith Axelrod, Paul Asaro, Scott Kirby
Final Set: Morten Gunnar Larsen and Stale Ytterli
10:30 PM
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Monday, June 6……. EVENTS UP TO 4:30 p.m. are FREE!
Tour of the Home of John William ‘Blind’ Boone at 10 North 4th Street—A National Historic Site—with its
9 AM
beautifully restored exterior and it’s currently frightening interior
9:30 AM
Music Fair
The Joyous Return of Steve Standiford—with Jim Radloff, Dave Tucker and Other Friends of Many Talents
11:30 AM Seminar I: “San Francisco Rags!” – a unique tour of San Francisco’s
contribution to ragtime Nan Bostick
12:30 PM Seminar II: Copyright Laws
Larisa Migachyov
2 PM Tour – the Big U: Blind Boone’s Concert Grand Piano, Boone County
Historical Society. (Carpool at Regency Inn at 1:50 PM)
4: 30 PM Ragtime, Early Jazz and Classics
In Memoriam: A Tribute to the Life and Talents of John Gill (died 4/15/11)
Performers: Spiritual: Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Willie Cogshell accompanied by Morten Gunnar Larsen;
Terry Waldo, Craig Ventresco, Tom Brier, Paul Asaro, Scott Kirby
Final Set: John Davis plays Blind Tom, Basile Fare, Igor Stravinsky, Blind Boone
8 PM Early Jazz, Stride, Novelty—with a Gershwin Finale
Performers: Willie Cogshell accompanied by Paul Asaro;
Ben Anderson, Max Keenlyside, Will Perkins, Dalton Ridenhour, Adam Swanson, Tony Caramia,
Afterglow—at the Regency Inn—Downtown, lower level – Le Tout Ensemble—with spontaneous Dancing and Prancing
Final Set: Richard Dowling and Frederick Hodges—performing Gershwin’s Concerto in F in three movements, a work
originally composed for piano and orchestra.
10:30 PM
Afterglow—at the Regency Inn—Downtown, lower level – Le Tout Ensemble—with spontaneous Dancing and Prancing
