• Scott Joplin House State Historic Site. Maintained by the Missouri State Park System, this link contains information on Scott Joplin, the Scott Joplin House, site hours, interpretive programs and a photo gallery.
• The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation. Housed in Sedalia, MO, this organization sponsors a yearly ragtime festival in June. Lots of information, including an online biography of Scott Joplin.
• Classical Net maintains this biography of Scott Joplin. Contains a complete list of his works.
• Spectrum Home and School Magazine maintains this biography of Scott Joplin by Rachel Sahlman.
• Scott Joplin made it into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
• Here's a short biography of Scott Joplin from the New Harvard Dictionary of Music.

Ragtime Societies and Newsletter

• The Bohemia Ragtime Society. Founded in 1990 in honor of Joseph Lamb. The Society puts out the "Top Liner Rag" newsletter in Colorado Springs.
• The Bitterroot Valley Ragtime Society.
• The Kansas City Ragtime Revelry.
• The Mississippi Rag: The Traditional Voice of Jazz and Ragtime. Excellent website and newsletter.
• The Northern Virginia Ragtime Society. Contains information about the society and its events, links, brief history of ragtime, and featured performers.
• The Ragtime for Tulsa Foundation. Information on membership, public concerts, educational programs, history of organization.
• The John William "Blind" Boone Heritage Foundation Information Center maintains a history page about the life of "Blind" Boone and other interesting information.
• The Rose Leaf Ragtime Club meets in the Pasadena area on the last Sunday of each month. They also publish the newsletter "Something Doing."
• The Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival.
• Swedish Ragtime Home Page. Great site maintained by friend Oleg Mezjuev. Find out about the details of Swedish ragtime: performers' information, order sheet music, hear midi file, just general ragtime info.
• Victorian and Ragtime Dances. Members of the Vintage Dance Society of Bloomfield, Connecticut and its performing troupe, Polite Society, have researched and reconstructered a variety of dances from both the Victorian and Ragtime eras.
• The West Coast Ragtime Society located in Sacramento, California and sponsor of the West Coast Ragtime Festival.

Single Owner Ragtime Resources

Ragtime-Related Sites