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Adam Swanson in Concert at The Historic Shuler Theater

January 30 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

ADAM SWANSON
The only 4-time Old-Time Piano Playing Contest World Champion!

World-class pianist/historian of vintage American popular music, Ragtime, Early Jazz, the Great American Songbook, and more!!!

In concert

Friday, January 30, 2026 @ 7 pm.

FREE ADMISSION

$10 SUGGESTED DONATION (OR MORE) FOR SHULER RESTORATION

PRESENTED BY THE DARDEN FOUNDATION

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 France, 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.
One Week (Joseph M. Schenck Productions, 1920)
Starring Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely

In one of Keaton’s best short films, he and his new bride attempt to build a house from a numbered kit, while a former rival threatens to ruin their new home. Two reels of side-splitting fun arising from the trials of honeymooners… One Week is such a spectacular short subject that is was added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 2008.

 

Details

Venue

  • The Historic Shuler Theater
  • 131 N 2nd St
    Raton, NM 87740     + Google Map
  • Phone 575-445-2052