TJ Muller takes care of Scott Joplin's piano at the Scott Joplin House, in St. Louis, Mo. The music known as ragtime first swept the nation more than 100 years ago. Missouri, known as the heartland of ...

Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin’s song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its peak.

All over Duluth this weekend, musicians and audiences will be celebrating the American precursor to jazz, ragtime music, courtesy of the Lake Superior Ragtime Society and its annual Ragtime Festival. ...

January in Muscatine means live ragtime music and eagle watching on the Mississippi. For more than three decades, one weekend in January transforms Muscatine into a ragtime piano hotspot with the ...

In 1984, Superior resident Tim Sandor traveled to a ragtime music festival in Toronto, Ontario. At the Detroit airport, flying out of Duluth, he met fellow enthusiast Yvonne Cloutier. Together they ...