RagFest and Orange County Ragtime Society

OCRS: Orange County Ragtime Society

Click on the play button to hear Vincent Johnson (Vincent is on the left end in the photo above) play his 'Shih-Tzu Blues' at a recent OCRS meet!

Next OCRS meet is Saturday, April 18, 2026!

Let's have a year filled with ragtime at meetings of the Orange County Ragtime Society in Fullerton, California! We'll see you on April 18 at the third OCRS meet of 2026!

Here are the details of the remaining OCRS meets for 2026:

Saturday, April 18, 2 pm - 5 pm

Saturday, May 16, 2 pm - 5 pm

Saturday, June 20, 2 pm - 5 pm

Saturday, July 18, 2 pm - 5 pm

[no meet in August]

Saturday, September 19, 2 pm - 5 pm

Saturday, October 17, 2 pm - 5 pm

[no meet in November]

Saturday, December 19, 2 pm - 5 pm

Where: Half Off Books, Records and Films, 141 W. Wilshire (Suite A), Fullerton, CA 92832

Map of OCRS Location for 2026

(Half Off Books, Fullerton CA)

For more information about Half Off Books and its history, click here.

Our OCRS events are FREE to the public. Please feel free to pass this along to anyone you know who loves this kind of music and has missed having it all this time. No RSVP is required – just be there if you can, and if not, stay tuned for more posts about future upcoming performances.

Since summer 2022, we've had thirty OCRS musicales, and to say they've been remarkable would be to understate. The latest was in March 2026. Our most recent Nixon Library show was on August 17, 2025. Click the links below to read about some of the recent meets and to get the details of some extraordinary musical events!

February 2026 OCRS Report

March 2026 OCRS Report

May 2025 OCRS Report

June 2025 OCRS Report

October 2025 OCRS Report

December 2025 OCRS Report

Nixon Library concert reports from 2024-25:

A word about RagFest: Along the way, some of you have inquired about RagFest. Nothing is scheduled yet, but we continue to work on paving the way for our next festival, and we'll be sure to get the word out as soon as circumstances allow a reboot of this annual event.

Here's OCRS stalwart Bob Pinsker spreading the ragtime (and Eubie Blake) word at a public piano at SAN airport last summer: Bob Pinsker plays Eubie Blake's Baltimore Todolo on a public piano