Adam Swanson
Adam Swanson is one of the world’s foremost performers of vintage American popular music, including ragtime, early jazz, the Great American Songbook, and more. He holds a bachelor’s in classical piano and a master’s in musicology from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Adam has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States, and he is the only four-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. He made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with Michael Feinstein. Adam has performed at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as in Hungary, Switzerland, and Australia. He lives in Durango, Colorado, where he frequently performs in the Diamond Belle Saloon at the Historic Strater Hotel. Visit Adam online: www.adamgswanson.com.

Christopher Palmese Ragtime and Stride Piano Party

"Ragtime Bob" Darch at the Springfield Ragtime Festival

A Tribute to "Ragtime Bob" Darch (2003)

"Ragtime Bob" Darch Documentary (2002)

Joe Frisco in "Mr. Broadway" (1933)

Pianist Sefton Daly in WHEREVER SHE GOES (1951)

Living a Ragtime Life -- Max Morath (1992)

They All Play Ragtime (1977)

Those Ragtime Years (1960)

Ian Whitcomb Interviews Shelton Brooks (1972)

Boogie Woogie Pianist BOB SEELEY at Charley's Crab - Troy, MI (c. 2004)

Boogie Woogie Pianist BOB SEELEY at Charley's Crab - Troy, MI (c. 1995)

"RAGTIME" CHARLIE RASCH at Charley's Crab - Troy, MI (c. 1995)

BOB SEELEY Famed Boogie Woogie Pianist Home Video (c. 1973)

Three O'Clock in the Morning -- SWANSON, MULLER, and TOLENTINO (West Coast Ragtime Festival 2022)

The Charleston -- SWANSON, MULLER, and TOLENTINO (West Coast Ragtime Festival 2022)

The Very Thought of You -- SWANSON, MULLER, and TOLENTINO (West Coast Ragtime Festival 2022)

Happy Feet -- SWANSON, MULLER, and TOLENTINO (West Coast Ragtime Festival 2022)

Oh By Jingo! -- SWANSON, MULLER, and TOLENTINO (West Coast Ragtime Festival 2022)

I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll -- SWANSON, MULLER, and TOLENTINO (WCRF)

Dick Kroeckel and Adam Swanson 2012 Concert (Ragtime Society of Colorado)

Jack Fina -- "Bumble Boogie"

San Francisco Jazz Legend PAT YANKEE -- "Caldonia"

John Arpin -- "Toronto Blues" (West Coast Ragtime Festival 2005)

John Arpin Set at the West Coast Ragtime Festival (2005)

Frederick Hodges Set at the West Coast Ragtime Festival (2005)

West Coast Ragtime Festival 2005 -- DYNAMIC DUOS CONCERT (Part 2)

West Coast Ragtime Festival 2005 -- DYNAMIC DUOS CONCERT (Part 1)

Historian Mike Montgomery Presents "OMEOMY" Seminar (RARE RAGTIME PIANO ROLLS) -- June 2006

"When Sambo Goes to France" (Tom Turpin) -- Piano Rolls at Trebor Tichenor's House!