Just two of many talented teenagers playing ragtime today, here are Vincent Johnson (YouTube's "sunshinecapers") at the piano and Andrew Barrett (YouTube's "KawhackitaRag") on washboard playing Zez Confrey's 1921 novelty hit, "Kitten on the Keys". ...or, in this case, Kitten on the Washboard!
Recorded Saturday, 17 November 2007 during an Open Piano session at the 21st annual West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento, California.
http://www.westcoastragtime.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/elitesyncopations
Hey! Some poor body has to wash cloths on that!
Morahman7vnNo2 2 years ago
Truly genial!
szalkage 3 years ago
thats really great!!!!!!!
JSSHG 3 years ago
Well, this isn't much I haven't posted from WCRF, so I guess the answer is yes!
Keeper1st 4 years ago
Hey Ron, thanks for posting the newest videos... will you be posting "Step It Up" soon?
KawhackitaRag 4 years ago
Don't worry about it Ron - He'll be playing that piece more when he gets it under his fingers.. It's a recent one. I'd love to see Step It Up! As far as Blue Grass goes.. Email it to me, and I'll see if it's alright.
sunshinecapers 4 years ago
Gosh, I feel bad now that I didn't record him playing your Hot Rod Tommy for you, given that I had two opportunities to do so. Get on my case next time, and make sure I record anything you want me to!
Keeper1st 4 years ago
Vincent Johnson is a ragtime revelation! That's a great snappy and entertaining version of the famous rag! I also enjoyed Andrew Barrett's washboard:-)
luigiranalli 4 years ago
Oh wait, I also got Tom playing "Step it Up" sort of; I was focused on Andrew playing the washboard to it.
Keeper1st 4 years ago
Yep, I had written that down.
Keeper1st 4 years ago