DECATUR - Judy Leschewski competed in the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing contest in 1977 in Monticello. She was terrified, although she had "played so well in my living room." She didn't ...

Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

DECATUR — If you ask his former students, they’ll tell you Larry Wade possesses a keen ear for music. He doesn’t discriminate — all styles and genres of songs have crossed his piano at some point — ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - A 95-year-old pianist is retiring after filling the halls of an Iowa hospital with the sound of music for decades. Alice Tritle is a volunteer at Mercy Medical ...