Jack Hutton’s Ragtime Calendar 2011

Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., May 27, 28, 29

This is the 21st time that Jack has been invited to perform at this wonderful festival. It was founded by the late“Ragtime Bob” Darch in the early 1990s and continues to feature some of the best ragtime and jazz performers on this continent. The festival will begin late Friday afternoon, May 27, and continues non-stop until Sunday afternoon at the Bonnie Castle Resort. Listeners, who come from both Canada and the U.S,. can go back and forth between two quite different venues – a relaxed saloon and a nearby concert room. Jack, who received the Pel and Betty Bell-Smith “Ragtime Bob” Darch Memorial Award at the 2006 festival, will be playing a mixture of classic ragtime (Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb), silent movie music, plus his trademark stride piano repertoire (Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Willie “the Lion” Smith). His weekend will include a special set of Dick Hyman compositions, George Gerswin piano roll transcriptions and a sing-along set showing how ragtime and barbershop music came together (“Play That Barbershop Chord”!). Learn more about the festival at http://alexbayjazz.wordpress.com.

Enjoy a Lake Muskoka dinner cruise aboard the RMS Segwun steamboat

Enjoy an evening dinner cruise listening to Jack on beautiful Lake Muskoka this summer aboard the RMS Segwun. Starting July 13th, he’ll be playing each Wednesday evening on the rear deck with his distinctive blend of ragtime, Broadway favorites and requests, often ending with a sing-along. It will be a three and one half hour cruise, leaving Gravenhurst Wharf at 6 p.m. Passengers have a choice of two dinner sittings for a gourmet dinner in the dining room below. A great night not to be missed on the oldest steamboat of its kind still operating in North America. For more information, google www.segwun.com

July 9, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Gravenhurst Opera House

This will be a night you won’t forget! You can reserve seats for the July 9th Gravenhurst concert through www.gravenhurstoperahouse.com

A 1919 SILENT MOVIE, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, COMES BACK TO LIFE.
August 18, Thursday, 8 p.m., Clevelands House, Minett, Muskoka

Jack and his wife, Linda, will be re-creating the long-lost 1919 silent movie, “Anne of Green Gables”, on Thursday, August 18th, at an historic Muskoka lodge, Clevelands House, that is roughly 220 kilometres north of Toronto (google “Clevelands House, Muskoka” for directions).

The evening is part of the summer-long concert and theatre program sponsored by the Muskoka Lakes Music Festival. To learn more, go to the Festival’s website: www.artsinmuskoka.com

It took Jack and Linda more than seven years to create this Powerpoint presentation, using many sources that included reviews of the time and documents at the U.S. Library of Congress. Dick Hyman was of great help to Jack in locating silent movie music that would have been played for the movie. Jack begins the presentation by demonstrating what silent movie pianists played in 1919.

Jack and Linda got rave reactions from international L.M. Montgomery scholars and fans when they made their presentation at an L.M. Montgomery conference located at the University of Prince Edward Island in 2008. Among those present were scholars from Iran, Turkey, Japan and other parts of the globe.

As you listen to Linda’s narration and accompanied by Jack’s totally authentic piano background, you will feel right back there in an old silent movie theatre. Why not make plans to make this a Muskoka holiday? Book your own get-away accommodation at Clevelands House or nearby.

For the full background behind the 1919 movie, including an unsolved Hollywood murder, look at the Mary Miles Minter page on this website.

PS The photo of Jack and Linda was taken during a presentation to the Stayner Historical Society in 2009.

THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE Available as a book and a CD It took Jack 20 years to complete a book telling the story behind the Canadian song, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, written in 1916 in Toronto by Ernest Seitz and Gene Lockhart. In the last 40 pages, Jack shares his own memories as a ragtime pianist. The book, now a collector’s item, can be ordered for $20 Canadian plus shipping. Also available is a CD with The World is Waiting for the Sunrise and 24 other tracks of toe-tapping nostalgia. $15 Canadian plus shipping. Also available on CD or cassette
CDs Available
A RAGTIME CRUISE (with a tribute to "Ragtime" Bob Darch) Easy Winners/ Wenonah Breeze/ Bala Bounce/ Ragging The Scale/ Dill Pickles Rag/ Nickels and Dimes/ A Salute to Charlie Musgrave/ Carolina In The Morning/ Music Box Rag/ Chloe/ There’s A Girl In My Life/ Honeysuckle Rose/ Honeyhush/ There’s Always Be A Thread In The Old British Rag/ My Own Best Girl/ Moon River/ Canadian Sunset/ End Of A Perfect Day $15 (U.S.) Check with us for shipping costs to your address
LINDA: A Celebration of Footprints Linda/ It Had To Be You/ Footprints Of Gold/ Someone To Watch Over Me/ He Touched Me/ Blue Skies/ Memories of You/ In The Garden/ What A Friend We Have In Jesus/ Amazing Grace/ Riverside Blues/ Precious Lord, Take My Hand/ I Can’t Give You Anything But Love/ Alley Cat/ How Great Thou Art/ Anne Of Green Gables/ Always $15 (U.S.) Check with us for shipping costs to your address
JACK HUTTON: CRUISIN' PIANO partially recorded aboard the R.M.S. Segwun August, 2010 Give My Regards to Broadway/ Somewhere Over The Rainbow/ Ain’t She Sweet/ There’ll Always Be An England/ White Cliffs of Dover/ We’ll Meet Again/ I’m Just Wild About Harry/ Tip Toe Through The Tulips/ Michelle/ Yesterday/ When I’m Sixty-four/ Heliotrope Bouquet/ I Could Write A Book/ Nothing Could Be Finer/ Indiana/ I Saw The Light/ Where Will I Go/ Red Sails In The Sunset/ Lily Marlene/ Bye Bye Blackbird/ Show Me The Way To Go Home
RAGTIME MEETS BLACK GOSPEL Just A Closer Walk With Thee/ Amazing Grace/ Precious Lord, Take My Hand/ Sweet, Sweet Spirit/ Swing Low, Sweet Chariot/ Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus/ What A Friend We Have In Jesus/ My Eyes Have Seen The Glory/ Go Tell It On The Mountain/ In The Garden/ Peace In The Valley/ How Great Thou Art/ When The Saints Come Marching In $20 (U.S.) Check with us for shipping costs to your address
Cassettes available
JACK HUTTON: A MUSKOKA RAGTIMER Solace/ Doin’ The Raccoon/ A June Night/ In A Mist/ Ode To Bix/ Echo Of Spring/ Dreamy Limehouse/ Blue Goose Special/ Rialto Ripples/ Mindin’ My Business/ Keeping Out Of Mischief/ Soda Fountain Rag/ Can’t We Be Friends/ Classical Rag/ Blackboard Rag/ California, Here I Come/ Bala Cranberry Song/ Got Religion In My Soul/ How Can I Serve Thee $5 (U.S.) Check with us for shipping costs to your address
I LOVE A PIANO: A SALUTE TO IRVING BERLIN Alexander’s Ragtime Band/ Everybody Step/ Midnight Choo-Choo/ Why Hang Around/ I Love A Piano/ Let Me Sing A Song/ Mandy/ I’m On My Way/ I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas/ Maple Leaf Rag/ The Entertainer/ Bink’s Waltz/ Russian Rag/ Black and White Rag/ Viper’s Drag/ My Fate Is In Your Hands/ If I Could Be With You/ Somebody Stole My Gal/ Five Feet Two $5 (U.S.) Check with us for shipping costs to your address

You can order through: 1-888-579-7739 or balamus@muskoka.com

Don’t forget that you get a chance to hear Jack every time you visit Bala’s Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery! The museum’s 1920 Cecilian upright piano is on the front cover of his book, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise. That’s the one that you may hear him play during your tour.

Quote – "When they made Jack Hutton, they broke the mould": Robin Moore, founder and director of the Barrie Jazz and Blues Festival, June, 2004.