RAGTIME EXTRAVAGANZA IN ANN ARBOR 1/17

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If you're in SE Michigan this weekend, here's a fun program packed with talent. Joining the 13-piece River Raisin Ragtime Revue for an fast-pace evening of vaudeville, burlesque, ragtime and early jazz and blues:
Grammy-winning guitarist and A Prairie Home Companion star PAT DONOHUE
BUTCH THOMPSON, longtime pianist and bandleader of A Prairie Home Companion
WILLIAM BOLCOM and JOAN MORRIS, song duo
JAMES DAPOGNY, ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and scholar
JOHN NEVILLE-ANDREWS, actor and director
ADAM SWANSON and ETHAN USLAN, past winners of the World Championship Old Time Piano Playing Contest
BRINAE ALI, tap dancer with Savion Glover and STOMP
ERIN MORRIS AND HER RAGDOLLS, vintage all girl dance troupe
MIMI MISCHIEF, NYC burlesque dancer
THE FRIARS, vocal octet of the University of Michigan Glee Club

Here are a couple of clips from past shows:

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Hope to see you there!