The Charles Templeton Ragtime Music Festival is being sponsored by the University Library and the Charles Templeton Sr. Music Museum as a means of enhancing the research in the area of ragtime music, increasing the awareness of the Templeton collection housed in the MSU Library and introducing people to the sounds of Ragtime being performed by world-renowned ragtime musicians.

The mission of the Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Music Museum is to tell the story about the "business of music", the moods music generates and influence of music on today's society. The museum will endeavor to accomplish this mission by allowing the three collections, of sheet music, recordings and self-playing music machines and memorabilia, to work in concert through interaction and study in providing opportunities encompassing knowledge and research.

The festival is comprised of a blend of major concerts, mini-concerts, seminars and tours of the Music Museum. Seminars will be held in Mitchell Memorial Library and major concerts will be held at the McComas Hall Theatre on the MSU Campus.

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