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World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest
Oxford, MS · Music
- When
- May 28–31, 2027
- Where
- Nutt Auditorium, Ole Miss campus · Oxford · MS
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A ragtime and old time piano competition that relocated to Oxford in 2016 after four decades in Illinois, drawing junior, senior, and open division pianists from across the country. Contestants perform pieces built around food and drink themes at Nutt Auditorium each Memorial Day weekend.
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A ragtime and old time piano competition that relocated to Oxford in 2016 after four decades in Illinois, drawing junior, senior, and open division pianists from across the country.
- Integrating Ole Miss0.6 mi
James Meredith, an air force veteran, enrolled under federal court order and a riot followed that killed two and injured hundreds.
Oxford's downtown square hosts more than one hundred fifty juried artists and touring musicians each spring, drawing an estimated seventy thousand visitors.
One of Mississippi's oldest festivals, founded in 1931 and revived in 1980, the carnival fills Main Street with a parade, a carnival queen pageant, and watermelon themed contests.
- William Faulkner31 mi
Born in New Albany before the family moved to Oxford, the town he turned into Jefferson and its county into Yoknapatawpha.