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. ...
It also features two special guest artists, arranger and ragtime banjo revivalist Aaron Jonah Lewis and NEC alum, longtime NEC Ragtime Ensemble member, and legendary local bandleader and trumpeter Bo ...
The idea for the first New Orleans Ragtime Festival came when Patrick Mackey hoped to find somewhere new to play. The tenor banjo player called his friend, Tonya Excho, and pitched the idea to create ...