Dill Pickles Rag on two pianos, oboe & flute, jam session

This was shortly before midnight during the party at Skunk Hollow during the 2008 Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival.

Tom Brier began playing the Charles L. Johnson hit "Dill Pickles" from 1906, while Jack & Chris Bradshaw played along on the upright piano.

Shortly after they began, Nan Bostick came in and sat down next to Tom to add a seventh hand to the performance. In the background are Pepper Rae on oboe and Bonnie Gonzalez on flute.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ragtime
• piano
• four-hand
• fourhand
• oboe
• flute
• 1906

[Lunariouse]

Lol!!! That's so funny!!! Do you know wherethey got the sheet music?

[Keeper1st]

@Lunariouse It's a very popular rag, so it's available in many places. Some of these folks even have original copies from 1906! If you do a Google search on "dill pickles rag sheet music" the first result is for the song version. The second result has a nice clean printable re-scoring of the instrumental version.

[Lunariouse]

LOVE IT!!!!! Would've been so much fun to play. The lady on the grand had a beer in her hand!!!!

[Keeper1st]

@Lunariouse yeah, when they started playing this rag, she came running in from the kitchen where she'd been chatting with people, drink still in hand, so she could lend her other hand to the fun.

[thomandy]

Wow - Impressive :) 5st for sure ;D

Thomas

[stewballmax2]

DYNAMIC and full of great ENERGY and EXCITEMENT!!!!

Pax,

Max

[Lunariouse]

Where did the flutist and the oboe players go?

[ZakulaZ]

It must've been so much fun to play.

[oldcountrytunes]

Certainly lively!!!! Super piano harmonizing and great teamwork with the other instruments. Thanks for sharing, Max.