Help Us Celebrate the 14th Annual Ragtime Festival in Indianapolis!
August 15-17, 2008 | Indianapolis, Indiana

Featured performers will be Terry Waldo, Terry Parrish, Paul Asaro, Nan Bostick, the Flying Cloud Dance Academyand surprise guests! Musical selections will be different at each concert Download our festival brochure to order your tickets today!

(08-Fest Brochure.pdf 300KB)

Headquarters hotel will again be the Holiday Inn East at 6990 E. 21st Street and Shadeland Avenue in Indianapolis, IN.  Phone number is:  (317)359-5341.  Activities begin Friday evening, August 15, with dinner in the Sutter's Mill Ball Room; room opens at 6 pm, serving to begin at 6:30 pm followed by a concert - then open piano.  Dancing throughout the weekend will be demonstrated and taught by dancers from the Flying Cloud Dance Academy of Cincinnati. 

Saturday, Aug. 16 will begin at 10 am with a free seminar. This is a free event and open to the public as well as our festival goers.  All events this day will be at the Indiana History Center, 450 West Ohio Street.  Then there is one concert at 2 pm and one at 7:30 pm in the Center's Basile Theater. Free parking on the north side of the History Center building.

We will end the weekend at the Holiday Inn East with a Sunday morning breakfast , 8:00 am til 11:00 am. As usual, ragtime piano will be played around our scheduled events by our ragtime friends who love to play and perform their favorite selections.

Our festival order form is available on this site - the form is in Adobe Acrobat 7, so if you haven't updated your reader recently, please click the "get Adobe Reader" button under the ticket. If you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, just click on the ticket icons (Admit one) to bring up our flier with the order form. Please note: the hotel room rate is $71 per night plus 15% room tax.  Cut off date for reservations is July 24.  Please remember to mention the Classic Ragtime Festival to obtain this rate.

Other hotels/inns in the vicinity of the Holiday Inn East are:

Fairfield Inn & Suites, 7110 E. 21st St., 317/322-0101
Hampton Inn, I-70 & Shadeland Ave., 317/359-9900 
Marriott East, 2202 East 21st St., 317/352-1231

Also, the housing department of the Indianapolis Visitors and Convention Association may prove helpful should you wish to stay in the downtown area.  Phone number, Monday through Friday is:  317/684-2573.

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If you have some extra time when you are in Indianapolis for the festival, there is much to see and do... museums, memorials, shopping malls, The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and much more! Please visit the web site of the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association at: http://www.indy.org/ for more
detailed information.

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ENTERTAINERS FROM PAST FESTIVALS AND MEETINGS PROGRAMS

Jeff Barnhart
Anne M. Barnhart
Mimi Blais
Neil Blaze
Tony Caramia
The Elite Syncopators
Frank French
Alex Hassan
Brian Holland
Dr. Nora Hulse
Glenn Jenks
Sue Keller
Scott Kirby
Dr. Terry Parrish
Joan Reynolds
Rachel Ruhman
Bill Tandy
Trebor Tichenor
Virginia Tichenor
Dick Zimmerman
and many more!