https://www.adamgswanson.com/home daily 1.0 2025-12-22 https://www.adamgswanson.com/about-adam daily 0.75 2025-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/57148bb7-0260-4d46-a36c-3e0a9ecf747d/Adam+Swanson--2+%28Small+File%29.jpg About Adam - Adam Swanson is one of the world’s foremost pianists and historians of vintage American popular music, including ragtime, early jazz, the Great American Songbook, and more. Adam has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States and abroad, and he is the only four-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. He made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with Michael Feinstein. Adam appeared alongside pianist John Arpin at the Bohem Ragtime and Jazz Festival in the Republic of Hungary, and he has also toured Switzerland and Australia. Adam has accompanied silent films at the prestigious Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood and performed privately for Oscar-winning Disney/Hollywood composer Richard M. Sherman (Mary Poppins, etc.). At the age of twenty-one, Adam performed a solo concert at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington, D.C. Adam holds a bachelor’s degree in classical piano and a master’s in musicology from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He has been mentored by other ragtime artists including the famed Max Morath and legendary 1950s recording artist Johnny Maddox, who was one of Adam’s greatest influences. Adam has recorded albums with noted musicians such as former rock star Ian Whitcomb, the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra, and the Bar D Wranglers. In 2025, he was selected as “Artist in Residence” for the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation in Sedalia, MO. Adam’s recordings have been used on the CBC TV show Murdoch Mysteries. He lives in Durango, Colorado, where he frequently performs in the Diamond Belle Saloon at the Historic Strater Hotel. Adam is also the director of the Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival. Listen to Adam’s livestream virtual concerts on his Facebook page and YouTube channel. https://www.adamgswanson.com/photos daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/19dcf3be-fa35-4595-a482-bb435b7790eb/Duo+No.+2.jpg Photo Gallery Adam at work in the Strater Hotel with Johnny Maddox, the only ragtime pianist with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Durango, CO | September 6, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/b193d983-e890-4d1f-938a-838860ff4fde/F71BC5F2-A1AC-431C-B474-DD2F4DE3ED1D_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam with the noted Disney/Hollywood composer Richard M. Sherman (Mary Poppins, etc.) (Beverly Hills, CA | June 29, 2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/50517fcd-d220-4131-a5f6-2bfff9f4d1c0/486D8243-068A-499C-BC5B-63BD4F1541F8_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam with Rose Marie, star of stage, radio, television, and more. Once known as “Baby” Rose Marie in the 1920s and ’30s, she later played Sally Rodgers on The Dick Van Dyke Show (Hollywood, CA | September 2, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/e62a5794-b3ae-48d5-90ae-ebdb90e48a6a/F834A20C-2761-47D3-BA64-56C1A3C6E86E_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam with actress Jane Withers, who was a child star in the 1930s and ’40s. She appeared in movies with Shirley Temple, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Gene Autry, James Dean, and many more (Hollywood, CA | September 1, 2013). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/9cb340f5-4fd9-41ec-8f8f-bf9da01676ae/BD8E0CC5-26B5-47A3-814F-9DA3B0C79F79_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery After dinner with Broadway and MGM movie star Carleton Carpenter, known for his hit “Aba Daba Honeymoon” with Debbie Reynolds (New York, NY | May 9, 2014). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/5bccb980-b5bd-4f67-98e5-1e5c7ccfbb4f/69F96C68-8E9A-4F90-A115-28B9C87D5DC5_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam with the “Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,” Michael Feinstein, backstage at Carnegie Hall (New York, NY | February 29, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/976564f1-f4b0-4ce0-9932-f0e323803c7e/Adam+with+Ian+Whitcomb.JPG Photo Gallery Adam performs at the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest with former rock star turned ragtimer Ian Whitcomb (Peoria, IL | May 26, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/9110715b-30cc-4a96-8e5a-653af0c2e81a/92164CA6-808D-4059-B21E-7B6CF467DC95_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Visiting New York City's popular songwriter and famed lounge pianist Irving Fields (age 98!) at Nino's Tuscany (New York, NY | May 9, 2014). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/2117a94c-584c-4078-93db-5aaf0b1d7317/EF6246C1-3AE8-446E-8B61-D9ACCCB43CE3_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Sharing a laugh with celebrated vocalist Pat Yankee, who worked with Turk Murphy's Jazz Band and has been a star of show business for eighty years (Pacifica, CA | March 13, 2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/09e531ee-d85e-4fea-ae63-1a43b8401167/DCF09A51-0EF6-44AD-9D3D-D87895F135DD_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam with noted film critic and historian Leonard Maltin (L) and pianist Frederick Hodges (R) at the Old Town Music Hall (El Segundo, CA | June 27, 2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/6e059ec8-f35f-4da4-b79f-0fa9868fcb65/2500357A-5383-4A59-AAC0-7323251D2020.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam performs for AMICA (Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association) with legendary Colorado ragtimer Dick Kroeckel (R) (Denver, CO | August 8, 2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/33e92ae9-dc2b-424c-b589-b2279fc3b4d8/507E2B53-93DA-4DFE-B760-635CFF551E2B_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam and Toronto’s keyboard virtuoso John Arpin (Kecskemet, Hungary | March 24, 2007). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/91cdd03c-0566-4e36-ab87-494c02338649/795E04F7-9049-402F-AFEE-E1882864F1F9_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery Adam and legendary ragtime performer Max Morath at the "Blind" Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival (Columbia, MO | June 12, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6111b098dd5c39015ef1c52c/4b18b068-adb4-414e-a774-3a4db323f4ca/96EB441F-9C37-46F4-952E-BF8A6A74C82D_1_105_c.jpeg Photo Gallery 1930s movie star Mary Carlisle kicks up her heels as Adam plays songs from her films with Bing Crosby! 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