Adam Swanson, Ragtime Pianist, presented by Tri-State Jazz Society at Haddonfield United Methodist Church

Adam Swanson is rapidly becoming known as one of the world’s foremost performers and historians of ragtime and early American popular music. He is a graduate student in musicology at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Adam has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States, and is the youngest three-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. In 2007, he appeared alongside the late John Arpin at the Bohem Ragtime and Jazz Festival in the Republic of Hungary. Swanson made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with Michael Feinstein. He has played at the prestigious Cinecon Classic Film...

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Adam Swanson is rapidly becoming known as one of the world’s foremost performers and historians of ragtime and early American popular music. He is a graduate student in musicology at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Adam has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States, and is the youngest three-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. In 2007, he appeared alongside the late John Arpin at the Bohem Ragtime and Jazz Festival in the Republic of Hungary. Swanson made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with Michael Feinstein. He has played at the prestigious Cinecon Classic Film
Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has toured in Switzerland. He performs every summer in the Diamond Belle Saloon at the historic Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado, where he is musical director for the new Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival. Adam also collects antique sheet music, records, and piano rolls. $10 first timers and members — $20 general admission. Free for students with IDs and children with paying adult. Pay at the door — no advance sales or reservations.

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