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Tom McDermott
Solo Piano
Pianist, composer, St Louis native and New Orleans piano legend To McDermott brings his mastery of styles from nineteenth century Caribbean and South American dances to 1950's and 60's R&B to show off the vision and versatility of the iconic composers of the ragtime era.
Saturday April 11, 11--11:45 am
Ragtime Day @ The Mint
Givonna Joseph's Opera Creole
Fresh off of their 2025 world debut of Morgaine in New Orleans' St Louis Cathedral, Opera Creole is giving two special reprise performances of their Treemonisha presentation from the first ever New Orleans Ragtime Festival in 2016.
Saturday April 11, 2 -2:45pm
Ragtime Day @ The Mint
Sunday April 12, 1:30 -2:15pm
Ragtime Day @ Longue Vue
Lars Edegran's New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
One of the heralds of the Ragtime Revival, Edegran's NORO first appeared in 1967. It's legendary appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival and faithful recordings of the Red Back Book orchestrations have inspired several generations of musicians and music lovers alike.
Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble
In a very rare appearance, the LRJE will present the music that ragtime became in its later years, the late teens and early 20's, in original arrangements with some of the best traditional jazz improvisers in New Orleans today!
New John Robichaux Society Orchestra
Tom Hook and Wendell Brunious lead the NJRSO, a nine-piece orchestra of top tier New Orleans musicians playing original music from the John Robichaux Band [pictured here], one of the premiere party bands in the city from 1895 to 1927, when the band was turned over to son Joe Robichaux.
With the help of archivist and scholar Bruce Raeburn, Tom scoured the boxes of arrangements left in the care of the Hogan Jazz Archive for gems, made period arrangements, and brought history back to life. Most of the NJRSO’s pieces have never been recorded before, despite being very popular in their time. Seeing this band live is like traveling through time in music and dance.
New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra
The New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra is an American revival orchestra that performs authentic orchestrations of vintage American popular music from the 1890s through the early 1930s. The orchestra plays particular attention to the music of New Orleans, Louisiana, where it is based
The Performers
The New John Robichaux Society Orchestra
Tom Hook and Wendell Brunious lead the NJRSO, a nine-piece orchestra of top tier New Orleans musicians playing original music from the John Robichaux Band [pictured on our Home Page], one of the premiere party bands in the city from 1895 to 1927, when the band was turned over to son Joe Robichaux.
With the help of archivist and scholar Bruce Raeburn, Tom scoured the boxes of arrangements left in the care of the Hogan Jazz Archive for gems, made period arrangements, and brought history back to life. Most of the NJRSO’s pieces have never been recorded before, despite being very popular in their time. Seeing this band live is like traveling through time in music and dance.
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Opera Creole, excerpts from Treemonisha
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Givonna Joseph, artistic director of the now world -famous Opera Creole, decided ten years ago to put together a 45-minute program, excerpts from Scott Joplin’s 1911 opera, Treemonisha, a story that foretold the Great Migration, about a community leaving the chaotic no-man’s-land of west Louisiana/east Texas to find peace and opportunity in other places. Ms Joseph and her company of singers, accompanied by Xavier music professor Wilfred Delphin, gave a stunning performance from this under appreciated opera by the greatest of all ragtime composers.
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This year Ms Joseph will present her company Opera Creole in a re-creation of this unique program. You do not want to miss it!
Louis Ford and his New Orleans Flairs
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Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs have been delighting audiences all over the world for decades. We are regulars at Jazz Fest and French Quarter Fest in New Orleans, and entertain at dozens of visiting conventions every year.
Louis is a fifth generation New Orleans musician, inspired by his father Clarence Ford. Like his father, Louis is an accomplished clarinetist and saxophonist, with love and dedication to the Preservation of Jazz.
Studying music at NOCCA under Ellis Marsalis, and a member of St. Augustine’s Marching 100, he earned a degree in Music Education from Loyola University.
(All the band members are music teachers, too.)
Louis’ career has enabled him to travel extensively, sharing his gifts throughout the world, with his band, Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs. Louis’ most inspiring and rewarding travels are those sharing his knowledge of New Orleans culture, Traditional Jazz, and the history of the music pioneers who created it.
S. Frederick Starr
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Founder of the Louisiana Repertory Ensemble in 1980, as well as the biographer of L. Moreau Gottschalk, octogenarian Fred Starr is making some new recordings with Gallatin Street Records.
Tom McDermott
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In the past three decades, there hasn't been a more consistent presenter of the classic ragtime repertoire in New Orleans than Tom McDermott. Tom's contributions to ragtime have truly been innovative. Being a virtuoso in so many piano styles, from the different eras of New Orleans piano, to neighboring styles from Central and South America and the Caribbean, Tom is able to hear connections that most of us miss. When you hear Tom play a rag with a Brazilian beat, or turn a march into a Jelly Roll Morton stride, you are witnessing a synthesis of musical feelings from across time and space.
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