"Benjamin and his orchestra filled the second half of the evening with lilting, humorous, and even elegant readings of ragtime numbers, a W.C. Handy blues song, and even a Sousa march…Popular music, A.D. 1900, is still going strong."
– Pasadena Star News
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PRO in Tallahassee, Florida
January 29 @ 7:30 pm EST
$10 – $55
The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra performs Meet Me At The Fair!: Sights & Sounds of the Great World’s Fairs for Florida State University’s Opening Nights! program. The multi-media performance will feature delightful and rare music and images from the 1876 Centennial, the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. The event will be hosted and conducted by PRO founder Rick Benjamin.
Purchase Tickets: https://openingnights.fsu.edu/events/paragon-ragtime-orchestra/
Box Office Phone: (850) 644-7670
Email: openingnights@fsu.edu
General Website: https://openingnights.fsu.edu/
