The 3rd Annual Glenn Jenks Ragtime Revue will take place in Midcoast Maine the weekend of October 12th-13th. In keeping with the tradition of the Harvest Ragtime Revues that Jenks produced in the 1990s, the Ragtime Revue honors the life and legacy of composer, pianist and musicologist Glenn Jenks by promoting music through performance, education and scholarships to aspiring musicians.
Hosted by Founder and Artistic Director Aaron Robinson, this year’s Ragtime Revue features the talents of three-time world champion jazz pianist Brian Holland and Grammy-winning drummer Danny Coots performing ragtime, stride, boogie-woogie, blues and early jazz. American archival pianist Corte Swearingen will perform four-handed ragtime works of Jenks with Aaron Robinson. Swearingen will also be on-hand to sign and talk about his latest recording project The Complete Ragtime Works for Piano, Vol I. by Glenn Jenks. The song-and-dance team of Jones & Boyce will perform period dance pieces and songs. Susan Boyce and Brian Jones were longtime collaborators and performers with Glenn Jenks for several decades. Jenks dedicated one of his most beautiful works for ragtime piano to Jones entitled “Sosua.”
The Ragtime Revue will award Susan Boyce with the Glenn Jenks Ragtime Emeritus Award for her many years of performing with Jenks at various ragtime Festivals and Revues including Jenks’s own Harvest Ragtime Revue throughout the 1990s. Historian, author and musicologist, Larry Melton will receive the Glenn Jenks Lifetime Achievement Award for his life-long devotion and never-ending accomplishments in the world of ragtime. He joins his good friend, the late Max Morath in receiving this award. This year’s recipients of the Glenn Jenks Future in Music prize sponsored through Bay Chamber will be presented to Benjamin Rosenthal, violin and Max Bostock, piano and composition. The prize is awarded to Maine instrumental, vocal or composition students, age 12-25, who wish to further their studies in the field of music.
The Ragtime Revue will be held on Saturday, October 12th at 7:30 pm at the Congregational Church in Boothbay Harbor, 125 Townsend Ave and Sunday, October 13th at 2:00 pm at Bay Chamber’s Hammer Hall in Camden, 5 Union St. General Admission at the door is $35 and $20 for Students.
