ST. LOUIS — During Black History Month, 5 on Your Side is celebrating the history that was made in St. Louis, and highlighting the next generation of change-makers. One of the most influential ...

During his career as a celebrated black piano player in the early 1900's, Scott Joplin said of his music, "Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast." For Joplin and many ...

BATTLE CREEK --Patrons got a musical lesson as they listened to jazz pianist Dick Hyman at noon Tuesday at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Hyman, who has researched early jazz and its practitioners, ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — The smell of soup wafted through the hallways, and then the band began to play, delighting the crowds with timeless ragtime tunes. In what has become a Muscatine tradition, ragtime ...

Goodspeed Musicals will present Ragtime as its first production of the 2025 season. A powerful musical about the dreams of three American families woven together with ragtime, jazz and show tunes, ...

Pianist William McNally plays the 'Maple Leaf Rag' for students at Skyline Elementary School in Sedalia, Mo. Ragtime is big with the kids in Sedalia. One day this spring, about 100 of them cheered for ...