For the third year in a row (not counting the Covid interruption), I attended the West Coast Ragtime Festival on the weekend before Thanksgiving. If you don’t have the time or desire to read this report, the bottom line is that it was well worth a trip across the country. Personally, I like to have more than one reason to take a transcontinental flight, so each time I’ve gone I have combined this event with another activity. This year it was the Arizona Classic Jazz Festival that you read about last month. In between the two I spent about a week visiting four national parks in central California.
WCRF is held at a Marriott hotel in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova. There are several other hotels within walking distance of the Marriott, but those seeking cheaper digs can find them not far away, and the Marriott is a one-minute walk from a light rail station, so getting there by public transportation is very doable, and trains run until past the last evening set (but not the after-hours doings).
