Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

Tina Buran still will have to run from the balcony to the floor of 1st Presbyterian Church of Pensacola, but now she'll be ...

Her body’s in fine shape and she sounds pretty good, too, considering her age. She played Beethoven’s “Für Elise,” a Joplin rag, and an improvised blues riff cleanly and effortlessly. There’s little ...

Mary Anne Tupa has rarely skipped a beat in six decades of playing piano and organ during Sunday Mass at Grand Forks' Holy Family Catholic Church. The only time Tupa, 94, has taken a break from ...

The team that built Charlotte's 'Pianodrome" inside Grace A.M.E. Zion Church held a celebratory jam session on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The 2023 Charlotte SHOUT! festival kicks off this weekend, ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - When Wilma Sundeen plays church hymns, she weaves in a bit of Bach and a lot of her memory. “By the time I got to the 7th grade, I had memorized at least half of the ...

That's what it took the 15th Avenue Christian Church in Rock Island to buy a new Yamaha baby grand piano. Church music director Sheila Doak and her pastor, the Rev. David Geenen, implemented what they ...