![]() ![]() and has appeared in over 100 countries. He has played on over 100 recordings, one of which won a Grammy in 2005. Danny has recorded extensively in Nashville, New York and L.A. In 1996 Danny moved to Nashville, Tennessee and has lived there ever since. He continued traveling and performing with David Amram, Ray Shiner, Daniel Pinkham, Herb Ellis, Will Alger, Jack Mayhue, Speigle Wilcox, Mimi Hines, Phil Ford, Bob Darch, Pearl Kaufman and Arthur Duncan. Lawrence University, Clarkson University and Potsdam State University from the 1970s into the 1990s. He eventually served as adjunct faculty at St. Danny attended The Crane School of Music and St. Since then, he has studied with Nick Baffaro, Rich Holly, Alan Koffman and Jim Petercsak in percussion. ĭanny Coots began playing drums at the tender age of 6 years old. She has been featured in Metro Times newspaper, and as the cover article for the Oakland University magazine. In addition to performing ragtime, Taslimah teaches music at Spain Middle School in Detroit. She has performed with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans, and at the Blue Note Jazz Café in New York City. Taslimah is a regular performer at Jazz and Ragtime Festivals across the country, including the Scott Joplin Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, Greenfield Village’s Ragtime Street Fair, and the West Coast Ragtime Society’s festival in Sacramento. For her efforts in performing the music and lecturing on the lives of these highly talented 20th century American composers, Taslimah received an award for the Preservation of African-American Music from the Society for the Culturally Concerned in Detroit. She formed Taslimah’s Ragtime Band, featuring the compositions of early ragtime composers, including Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Tom Turpin, Artie Matthews, Harry P. When she heard Charlie Gabriel, the music she had read about came alive for her. Taslimah started researching ragtime music and the roots of jazz in college. Bey began studying classical music at age 16, and switched to jazz in her senior year of high school. He looks forward to bringing ragtime to audiences everywhere as a testament to America's original popular music. There is not a day he regrets this decision! Playing and singing in the heart of community brings Peter immense joy and satisfaction. ![]() Classically trained, Peter took a leap of faith after twenty-four years at well-known Silicon Valley companies and embarked on a full-time career in music. Passing this love onto others is the foundation of his own performances today. Michigan and the live performances he witnessed there. PETER BERGIN’s love for ragtime reaches back to his formative years in Recordings of rag-time and designs her own period dresses, as well as makes period accurate cartoons of ragtime era figures. I remember hearing themįirst when I was three to four years old.” She continues to study the earliest The 1900s that had ragtime dance music on them. He started by having me listen to a few records from Stated, “My father (Clint Baker) is the one who first got me interested She has been interested in ragtime for longer than that. She has been playing ragtime since 2011, but RAMONA BAKER is 21 years old and a scholar of the earliest recordingĪrtists and recording industry. ![]()
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