Looking up at a grand piano on the concert hall stage, the third grade students who filed into Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Performing Arts Center on Tuesday weren't sure if they were allowed ...

Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

Reginald Robinson recreated a musical era in front of a full Fulton Hall on Thursday night with “Rediscovering Ragtime.” The renowned Chicago musician not only performed his own music and that of many ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...