Thank you to everyone that helped make our inaugural Durango Ragtime & Early Jazz Festival a success. We are already looking forward to next year set for March 14– 16, 2014. Please email us at info@strater.com with any questions you may have. In the meantime, Keep the Ragtime Playing in the Old West!
Please be patient with us while we finalize our festival schedule. We have so many great musicians and fun activities that we are just hoping we have enough time to squeeze all of this fantastic entertainment into three days. For more information please email us at info@strater.com, and we’ll be happy to email or call you back promptly to answer your questions.
10:30 a.m.
"Vitaphone Vaudeville"
Symposium with Adam Swanson
Pullman Room
Pianist and historian Adam Swanson will present a number of short musical films from the late 1920s and early 1930s. Warner Brothers' Vitaphone shorts depicted the tail end of the Vaudeville era and captured for future generations a truly unique, albeit lost art form. Swanson will illuminate each film with information about the performers and stories from the time period. Such important musical acts as duo-pianists Victor Arden and Phil Ohman made Vitaphone shorts. Also expect to see everyone from the "Queen of Syncopation," "Blossom Seeley," to Western movie star "Fuzzy" Knight.
1:30 p.m.
Dance Lessons
Taught by Suzy DiSanto
Henry Strater Theatre
3:00 p.m.
"Railroad Ragtime"
Oak Room
4:00 p.m.
30 Minute Sessions
4:00 p.m. Lacey Black
4:30 p.m. Daniel Rottenberg
5:00 p.m. Hoyle Osborne
Oak Room
5:30 p.m.
Dinner Break
7:30 p.m.
Ragtime Sampler Concert
Featuring Danny Coots, Bill Edwards, Will Perkins, Martin Spitznagel, Adam Swanson, Ian and Regina Whitcomb
Henry Strater Theatre
9:30 p.m.
After Hours Party
Diamond Belle Saloon
10:30 a.m.
Ragtime and the Disney Paradigm
Symposium with Bill Edwards
Pullman Room
Walt Disney grew up in rural and urban Missouri, and absorbed both the visual and aural elements of ragtime. This remained present in his music and topic choices through many of the cartoons of the 1920s to 1940s, later feature films, and his theme parks. While ragtime was not always present in other parts of the media, Disney and his musicians kept it alive during its dormancy, culminating in Main Street USA in the Disney Parks and a fine legacy of their own media. This sanctioned seminar highlights the use of both the music and the essence of the ragtime era from Walt’s start in the business in 1920 up through the 2010s, with many fine examples.
11:30 a.m.
30 Minute Sessions
11:30 a.m. Daniel Rottenberg
12:00 p.m. Hoyle Osborne
12:30 p.m. Lacey Black
Oak Room
1:30 p.m.
Silent Film Comedies with Live Piano Music
Adam Swanson and Bill Edwards
Henry Strater Theatre
Get Out and Get Under (Starring Harold Lloyd, 1920)
Chasing Choo Choos (Starring Monty Banks, 1927)
One Week (Starring Buster Keaton, 1920)
3:30 p.m.
"I Love a Piano" Concert
First Act: Bill Edwards, Will Perkins, and Martin Spitznagel
Second Act: The Whitcomb-Swanson-Coots Trio Presents "I Love a Piano"
Henry Strater Theatre
5:30 p.m.
Dinner Break
7:30 p.m.
Pianos on Fire Concert
Featuring Bill Edwards, Will Perkins, Martin Spitznagel, and Adam Swanson
Finale: Adam Swanson and Dr. Lisa Campi Walters Perform "Rhapsody in Blue" on Two Pianos
Henry Strater Theatre
9:30 p.m.
After Hours Party
Diamond Belle Saloon
9:30 a.m.
Farewell Brunch
With Impromptu Performances
Diamond Belle Saloon
*ALL VENUES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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