‘Queen of Ragtime’ is returning to DSUAfter completing her classical training at the Quebec Conservatory of Music and McGill University in Montreal, Blais left the beaten path to discover ...

Many musicians continued to imitate his style, and ragtime music remained extremely popular, ultimately inspiring the genre of jazz by the 1920s and the big band music of the 1930s and 1940s.

His "Maple Leaf Rag" was the first to sell more than 1 million copies of sheet music as the ragtime rage swept the U.S. from the late 1890s to roughly 1920, when it was largely subsumed by jazz.

He and his orchestra celebrate ragtime music – those scores that were popular from 1870 to 1920. “That was where America’s music began,” Benjamin said.

After World War I, the popularity of the player piano skyrocketed, ushering in the “Jazz Age” of the 1920s. “The early hot music was the cakewalks and those morphed into ragtime,” explains Williams, ...

Ragtime pianist Adam Swanson is part of the youthful wave of interest in ragtime and early jazz. He plays at this weekend’s Santa Cruz Ragtime Festival. Contributed photo.

Many musicians continued to imitate his style, and ragtime music remained extremely popular, ultimately inspiring the genre of jazz by the 1920s and even the big band music of the 1930s and 1940s.

Diners listening to rag-time music from a rare 1920s nickelodeon have helped improve a dangerous footpath. The new path, alongside Ravenspoint Road in Trearddur Bay , has been installed using ...