I have a concert this Sat, Apr 19, 8pm at Unity Coffee House in 
Livonia.  Appearing solo (accompanied by David Mosher on guitar) and 
with All About Eve (accompanied by John Goodell on piano. Two 45 min. 
sets.

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Here is a link with more info:

http://www.unityoflivonia.org/coffeehouse.htm

By the way, love the photo, Katie.  You look real perty. ;-)

pic's gone .. anywhare else to see?

katiegeddes.com, myspace.com

My usual spate of late May/early June solo piano performances is coming 
up soon:

Old Time Piano Playing Contest, Peoria Illinois, May 23-25.
http://oldtimepiano.com

    Click on the "2008 Contest" link for the list of contestants.
    This event is devoted to the popular music of the early 20th
    century, most particularly ragtime, and is probably the only
    contest of its kind in the world that is open to all comers.
    This is a rare opportunity to see me in period costume, in-
    cluding straw hat and sleeve garters.

Ragtime Rally, St. Louis Missouri, May 26.
http://www.mostateparks.com/scottjoplin.htm

    This event is held every Memorial Day at the Scott Joplin House
    in St. Louis.  Joplin's former residence (circa 1902) has been
    converted is now a museum devoted to Joplin's life and music.
    It's worth a visit if you're ever in the St. Louis area.  The
    annual Ragtime Rally features performers in an outdoor tent as
    well as in the indoor "ragtime saloon".

Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, Sedalia, Missouri,
June 4-8.
http://scottjoplin.org/festival.htm

    With over 50 scheduled performers and numerous simultaneous
    venues, the Scott Joplin Festival takes over the city of Sedalia
    for five days and is by far the largest of the ragtime festivals.
    I'll be playing sets at various outdoor locations around town
    (free) and in the Legacy of Scott Joplin concert on Friday
    afternoon (admission charge).
    See http://scottjoplin.org/performers.htm for the list of
    performers.

I'll not be on stage but rather playing in the aisle, at Hill, this 
Saturday evening, when a large number of flutists salute James Galway with 
a modern composition on the theme of Danny Boy.

sorry i misdedd it ....

Our seats, at Hill, for the concert were at the very most back of the 
second balcony.  Oh. My. God.  Is that up there.  The piano looked like 
something Barbie might play.  But the sound was better than the back of 
the main floor.  It was fun all around.

 The piano looked like
 something Barbie might play.

I was thinking you mean it had mirror finish or something until I realized
you were talking about size perspective.

Are you sure you weren't really thinking about Liberace?

Played Blind Boone's "Camp Meeting #1" and Julia Lee Niebergal's "Hoosier 
Rag" in the opening round of the Old TIme Piano Playing Contest.  Made it 
to the semifinal round (top ten, tomorrow).  Semifinal round is tomorrow.  
If I make it to the top five, I get MONEY.

I'm rootin fer ya!

I sure hope you get the money, remmers!

Show us the money, John!!  ;-)

buy his ReallyGreate (tm) cd and you can show him teh money .... which
he deserves more of, imnsho.

Well, I was not fated to make it to the top five, but I certainly don't 
begrudge it to any of those who did - they're all outstanding piano 
players and a fun bunch of folks.  The winner of the contest is 16-year-
old Adam Swanson, formerly of Michigan, now living in Iowa.  (He's the 
first under-18 person to have won in the "adult" division in the history 
of the contest.  (Under the rules, he has to compete as an adult because 
he won the junior division three times.))

Today, for me, it's on to St. Louis and a gig at the Scott Joplin House.

Sounds fun, remmers. it is too bad about the money but I imagine that
the fun your having is more valuable anyways.

remmz.... what is the url for your cd-sales site?  
  
for just one of severeal who have lilsened ... it's excellent - stonetruth.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/remmersjohn

hey. folks .. buy this cd!  *i* said so, ok?  [[you have no other idea]]

The Illinois/Missouri ragtime festival tour was great fun.  Four 
festivals - Old Time Piano Contest (Peoria, IL), Ragtime Rally (St. 
Louis, MO), Blind Boone Festival (Columbia, MO), Scott Joplin Festival 
(Sedalia, MO).  Much splendid music, enthusiastic audiences, and 
opportunities to hang out with not-often-seen friends.

A number of the performances from these events have been posted on 
YouTube, thanks to attendance by some video fiends who also happen to be 
ragtime fans.  If you're curious, check out recent postings here:

    http://youtube.com/user/tdub1941
    http://youtube.com/user/idasynco
    http://youtube.com/user/rtpress

Here are a couple of videos of me at the Blind Boone Festival:

    Weeping Willow (Scott Joplin, 1903)
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=d2gXdDC1eBQ

    Hoosier Rag (Julia Lee Niebergall, 1907)
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=jdo-R1qLWuk

I listened to it on m-net

I have a bunch of gigs coming up.  Too lazy to post them all, but
they are listed in detail at www.katiegeddes.com. This Thurs is in 
Fenton. Next week Linden, then a few times in Chelsea...etc

Another video from the Scott Joplin Festival, this one in an outdoor
tent called the "John Stark Pavilion", after Scott Joplin's publisher.
My interpretation of Blind Boone's "Camp Meeting #1".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTzkCE8W6dQ

(Unfortunately, the final chord of the piece was truncated...)

Prodigious video-make Tom Warner has posted a few more samples of my
playing at the Blind Boone Festival in Columbia, MO:

    "Snookums" (Charles Johnson, 1918)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Vw3wC44s8

    "The Sycamore" (Scott Joplin, arr. William Tyers, 1910)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjTjULsNHh4

    "The Alabama Slide" (Charles L. Johnson, 1911)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8CumPPqkzk

    "The Thriller" (May Aufderheide, 1909)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Wkdk02wkU

Actually, you should check out Tom's video feed at

    http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tdub1941

He's posted a huge collection of videos of the many, many fine musicians
who participated in the Blind Boone and Scott Joplin festivals.  Lots of
extraordinary stuff.

   ((( linked between Spring 2008 Agora and Music )))

Re #7: while you are up there at Hill, Mary, would you check on my "chair"?
I made a contribution to the restoration work done in Hill and got a 
"chair" somewhere jup there, but haven't seen it. 

Will do.

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