Last year three of the four surviving members of The Ragtimers re-united at FocalPoint Concerts where Bill was a member of T.J. Muller's group and Don sat in for a few songs on tuba.   You can still see and hear Bill playing around town with T.J. and with Bill's son's group, "Sins of The Pioneers."  Al and Don are still active at St. Louis Banjo club events and were on a float with the club in a televised parade in Downtown St. Louis recently.  They are still greatly appreciated by St. Louis for their contributions to St. Louis and Music History.
Here's a commissioned Trebor Tichenor composition, "The Cape Rose Rag"
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Welcome to the Official Fan Site for this legendary group. Please note the new FACEBOOK Page for the band initiated by The Sheldon Concert Series.. 
Listen to a set of Ragtimers Music from 1979.

St. Louis Ragtimers Videos & Playlist

Here's a song from their last Sheldon concert....
Download this fantastic LIVE Recording from 1979
SONGLIST:
Wolverine Blues 5:11
South 3:10
Charleston Back To Charleston 3:46
Pineapple Rag 3:59
Peoria. 4:07
Long Tall Brown Skin Gal 2:59
Struttin' With Some Barbecue 4:05
B. Black and Blue 6:39
Beetle Um Bum 3:05
A Closer Walk With Thee 6:02
King Chantacleer/Mississippi Reg 5:25
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In the 50th Year that the St. Louis Ragtimers had been playing as a group, we released some archived audio and video recordings. This LIVE! audio recording was located among the many hundreds of hours of recordings made by Don Franz. This session is special. Not only is it the final set of the 79' Festival, but it was recorded in a smaller room which has better natural acoustics for ambient recording. Many of the bands' self-tapings did not record the vocals effectively.. but again, we were lucky with this one. The set ran exactly the right length to fill a traditional vinyl "LP", which makes us all wish this recording had been discovered 30 years ago.
Don's not sure but he thinks he did the taping - which may account for why he disappeared for some songs and had guest tuba players.. giving Al the great joking opportunity to intro­duce Don's return to the stage as a "guest performer." We're sorry but we haven't discovered who took the great cover photo. Watch for Anniversary Events and some additional CD and DVD releases later this year in this website.