September 18-21, 2025

Pianist and conductor Andrew Greene is the leading authority on orchestral ragtime music in the United States. With his Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra, he has performed repeatedly at the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, American Film Institute, and the Kennedy Center, to name a few.

Hailed in the press as one of the top concert pianists in the world, Frederick Hodges has established a reputation specializing in late romantic music as well as Ragtime, Broadway, and Hollywood musicals of the first half of the twentieth century by America’s best composers, such as George Gershwin and Cole Porter. He maintains a busy concert schedule of stage, television, radio, and film appearances around the globe. His website is: www.frederickhodges.com.

Hailed by The New York Times as “an especially impressive fine pianist,” Steinway Artist RICHARD DOWLING appears regularly throughout America in solo recitals, at music festivals, and as guest soloist with orchestras. Works of Chopin, Debussy, Joplin, Gershwin, Gottschalk, Ravel, ragtime, and early jazz figure prominently in his repertoire. His 3-CD set, The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2018.Visit his website at www.richard-dowling.com.

Bryan S. Wright is a pianist and Grammy-nominated musicologist specializing in ragtime and early jazz piano styles. With his wife, Yuko, he has performed and lectured on ragtime across the United States and abroad, including featured appearances at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Buenos Aires Ragtime Festival, and the Tokyo Ragtime Festival. He is founder and executive producer of Rivermont Records, an internationally-distributed label specializing in ragtime and early jazz. 

Charlie Judkins is a practitioner of Ragtime, Traditional Jazz and Blues piano, as well as a lifelong Brooklyn native. He began playing piano in 1997 at age six. In 2007, he was introduced to the music of Jelly Roll Morton and immediately began studying traditional ragtime and blues piano. Shortly thereafter he came under the informal tutelage of several highly-regarded pianists including Terry Waldo, Mike Lipskin, Ehud Asherie and the late George Mesterhauze. His piano playing has been in demand at various public and private events in the New York City area since debuting as a professional bar-room pianist in the Summer of 2010. He also works as a silent film accompanist at various theaters in the New York area

Miss Maybell is a one of a kind contralto singer, multi-intrumentalist, and band leader specializing in Early American Ragtime, Traditional Jazz and old Blues. Miss Maybell and her Band have played shows and Festivals throughout the US and in Europe. Some venues worthy of note overseas are headlining The Sevilla Swing Festival in Spain and playing a week of shows at Marian's Jazz Room in Bern Switzerland. In the US Miss Maybell and her band have played and sold out every show of theirs at the legendary Birdland Theater (in NYC) they have also played at Club Passim (in Boston), Gotham Jazz Fest (NYC) Acoustic Artisans (Portland M.E.), Jug Band Jubilee Festival ( Louisville KY.)

Multi-instrumentalist T.J. Muller is a bountiful resource of knowledge when it comes to Jazz, Blues Swing and Ragtime music of the early 20th Century. Based in St. Louis, he grew up in the south of England where he heard his father playing the music of the 1920s. He moved to St. Louis in 2013 to play with Pokey LaFarge, and has since formed his own group, The Arcadia Dance Orchestra. He has performed internationally on cornet, banjo, and other instruments. He has previously performed at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, and at other venues across the United States.

The 2017 winner of Hot House Magazine’s “NYC Jazz Fans Decision” award for Best Clarinetist, Dan Levinson is equally at home as both leader and sideman, fronting his own groups as well as performing with those led by others. Since 1993 he has been a member of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, the country’s preeminent 1920s-’30s hot jazz orchestra, with whom he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio program. 

Andy Stein is a musician with a checkered past. Besides freelancing as a violinist/violist in chamber and orchestra groups in his native New York, he has recorded with Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Frederica Von Stade, toured China with a string quartet, and performed concertos with orchestras in New York, Chicago, New England, Pacific Northwest, and the South.

More information on Brian coming soon!

Steve Torrico started playing washboard in 1978, worked at Walt Disney World, led an 12 piece 20s orchestra. Cocoanut Manor Orch., for 28 years in Central Florida. First gig playing drums was early 1980s in Profeser Plums Jazz Band. In Chicago, formed the Lakeshore Syncopators. Now playing with Blackbird Society Orch.