This is one of my “bucket list” items, to go to the Old-Time Piano Playing Contest in Peoria, IL over Memorial Day weekend.
This video is “almost” as good as being there.
The Old-Time Music Preservation Association is staging their 41st World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest this year to educate people about old-time piano music written prior to 1940.
When the World Championship Old-time Piano Playing Contest wraps up its 41st annual edition Memorial Day weekend in East Peoria IL, it will be for the last time.
More than 800 piano players from 38 states and five foreign countries have participated in the event through the years, collecting over $100,000 in prizes, but whoever wins the contest’s traveling trophy this year will get to keep it.
I guess this is one of my bucket list items that won’t be achieved.
One of the “regulars”, Bill Edwards, who goes by the pseudonym “Perfessor Bill” has written a lot of ragtime music, some of which I’ve ordered. When I did, it came out that he lives relatively close so he dropped it off in person! As close as I’ll get to this event.
Bill’s website is an excellent resource for all-things ragtime. If you’re interested at all, just start digging in.
This is one of the pieces in the OCMS lending library.
One last favorite video