Scott Joplin Festival

The 2021 Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival has been cancelled due to ongoing concerns regarding COVID and the safety of our performers, patrons, and volunteers.

The 2020 Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival has been canceled,

The Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival begins today. Volunteers are needed to assist with setup and teardown for this year's event. The festival starts at the SFCC Stauffacher Center and continues in downtown Sedalia Thursday through Saturday.

Hopefully the rain will stay away for the remainder of the Scott Joplin Festival, but there are lots of tents and indoor activities to enjoy the ragtime music. The weather did cause the Maple Leaf Venue to be moved to the Liberty Center for the remainder of the festival...

I made my way to Downtown Sedalia to check out the free venues for the 2015 Scott Joplin Festival and enjoyed catching up with some familiar faces and seeing the people who came from afar to enjoy the shows. The weather did cause a little of a disturbance and moved the events in the Maple Leaf Venue at Main and Ohio to the Liberty Center, but everything else has been going well...

The Scott Joplin Festival moves to Downtown Sedalia today with a lot of the tents and locations open. Here is a look at the free entertainment today and the paid shows are listed at the bottom. Thursday - Saturday Maple Leaf Club Site- Open 9 a...

The Scott Joplin Festival begins today and rolls through Saturday in Sedalia. The Scott Joplin Festival begins today (June 3) at State Fair Community College with free shows at the Commons area from 9 this morning until 4 this afternoon. There will be two paid shows at 2 this afternoon and 8 this evening...

The Scott Joplin Festival has officially started. Most of the activities are in Downtown Sedalia, however today's (June 4) are at State Fair Community College. However, several of the ragtime artists paid a visit to this morning with The Boys & Girls Clubs of West Central Missouri Summer Program. ...

Every year, Sedalia gets an influx of music fans from all over the world with the Scott Joplin Festival.

The Sedalia Downtown area is one of those places I think everyone knows about, but doesn't keep it in mind every day. That's a shame, because our downtown is growing, changing, upgrading, and bringing Sedalia's history alive every day.  Not only did they have a great Chocolate Crawl recently, but they've got plans in motion for this year's Scott Joplin festival and more.