With the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival right around the corner, Nevin Almquist said this is “a good time, an exciting time.”
But the president of the board of directors for the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation has something else to be excited about: Joplin will be inducted into the Missouri Music Hall of Fame in August.
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