way they ought to.” -Garrison Keillor[/pullquote]
Join Piano by Nature for two concerts worth waiting for! Three-time Old- Time Piano Playing Champion Ethan Uslan returns to Elizabethtown for two very special concerts on May 30th and 31st. And in addition Ethan will be performing a special tribute to Lake Champlain he put together just for us!
Performances are Saturday, May 30th at 7:00 pm and Sunday, May 31st at 3:00 pm. Tickets are $15 adults, $5 for 15-and-under.
Visit www.pianobynature.org or call 518-962-2949 for more information. And click here to see some of Ethan’s best performances to date, including some from his last Piano by Nature appearance.
A little more about Ethan Uslan
Ethan Uslan is a ragtime/jazz/silent film pianist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a 3-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest (yes – that really exists!) and has performed all over the USA as well as in the UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and Cyberspace, where his jazzed-up Für Elise has gone viral.
Aside from solo work, Ethan has appeared with symphony orchestras, jazz bands large and small, improv comedy groups, and even a clown show.
Beginning classical studies at the age of 9 in his hometown of South Orange, NJ, Ethan went on to study classical piano at Indiana University. Overloaded with classical music, Ethan began to play Scott Joplin and Fats Waller as a diversion. But eventually the syncopated music took over, and he hasn’t looked back since.
Ethan’s performances are filled with passion, humor, virtuosity, and a deep love for America’s rich musical past. His vast repertoire includes original arrangements of Civil-War era songs, New Orleans Jazz, 1920s Charlestons, blues, stomps, Harlem stride piano, swing, Cuban rumbas, jazzed-up versions of classical masterpieces, and one Hawaiian song called Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula. Learn more about him here.
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