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David Reffkin and the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival

There was a knock at the door and when I answered the fellow introduced himself as David Reffkin (not to be confused with Joshua Rifkin and not related). David was interested in the upcoming ragtime festival and had arrived four days early to help. So, after a get acquainted conversation when I learned he was an accomplished violinist, I put him to work.

David was one of the first of many to stop by our home that week fifty years ago. However, this particular visitor was to become the only musician/performer to be in every single Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival over the last 50 years.

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