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| Orange County Ragtime Festival RagFest 2006, Orange County's seventh annual ragtime music festival, comes to Fullerton, CA, October 21st-22nd. The event, known as "RagFest" by its organizers, Friends of Jazz, Inc., is the only annual festival of ragtime music in the entire southwestern U.S. The event has been expanded to include five venues throughout the downtown Fullerton area, with three special programs and a raft of piano solos and two-piano duets, songs, instrumental ragtime and even a full ragtime orchestra. This year's festival features Ian & Regina Whitcomb, Tex Wyndham, Carl Sonny Leyland, Nan Bostick, Patrick Aranda, Erika C. Miller, Brad Kay and Those Syncopating Songbirds, Bob Pinsker, Eric Marchese, Andrew Barrett and Bill Mitchell. The weekend's highlights will include xylophonist Morris Palter; the second festival appearance of the Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra; the seventh consecutive RagFest appearance of the Albany Nightboat Ragtimers; and the festival debuts of O.C. vocalist Debbi Ebert, Los Angeles pianists Ron Ross and Marc Sachnoff, and Jack and Chris Bradshaw, a Gilroy couple who perform four-handed ragtime arrangements on one piano. During both afternoons (Programs "A" and "C"), Steamers Jazz Club will function as festival HQ, with concurrent music at Mo's Music store, the public library and, for dancers, the vintage Imperial Ballroom. Saturday night, Oct. 21st, offers a revue show (Program "B") at the Fullerton High School Little Theatre. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |