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ST. LOUIS' RAGTIME HERITAGE
TO BE CELEBRATED
ON HISTORIC LACLEDE'S LANDING
(Taken from the May, 98 Euphony
Review.)
The music that found its voice in St. Louis will
weave its syncopated charms around the historic brick buildings and through
the cobblestone streets of historic Laclede's Landing when the St. Louis
Ragime Festival is celebrated on Saturday, June 20th from 2 p.m. to 6
p.m. Ragtime performers from throughout the Midwest will play on two outdoor
stages. The musical director for the event is St. Louisan Trebor Tichenor,
one of the world's most respected musicians and keepers-of-the-ragtime-flame
. The event is being organized by local ragtime enthusiast and historian
Cynthia Craig, and is sponsored by the Laclede's Landing Merchants Association
and Lohr distributing. All performances are free to the public.
St. Louis is considered to be the birthplace of
ragtime, with such luminaries as Artie Matthews, Scott Hayden, Tom Turpin,
and of course, Scott Joplin converging here around the turn of the century
in Turpin's Rosebud Club and other "sporting area" bars. It was in St.
Louis that the first rag by a black composer was published. It is here
today that the home where Scott Joplin composed many of his famous tunes
has been restored and opened to the public. And it is here that the mighty
Mississippi River caresses 200 year old cobblestone streets where a restored
historic area known as Laclede's Landing provides an ideal venue for the
enduring and wonderful music known as ragtime . Laclede's Landing, "where
St. Louis began," is a nine square block area located just south of the
Arch and the Eads Bridge, and between the Mississippi River levee and
the TWA Dome. There is plenty of parking on and adjacent to the Landing.
For more information contact: Keller and Associates
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