As long time Cruise Directors and entertainers on the Delta Queen, Mississippi Queen and American Queen, Jazzou Jones and Bob Schad have thrilled audiences with amazing banjo, vocal, humor and piano styles both as soloists and as a duo. Their musical friendship began in 1981 when they were paired to perform aboard the Mississippi Queen for the Great Steamboat Race against the Delta Queen. Jazzou and Bob have appeared at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, Tall Stacks, the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta and the Big Muddy Folk Festival. Jazzou continues in his river career as a speaker and entertainer for American Cruise Lines on both coastal ships and riverboats on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. From swanky clubs and seedy dives, all the way to the concert stage as featured soloists with the Huntington Symphony Orchestra, their love of performing ragtime, traditional river songs and novelty tunes regularly takes them from coast to coast.

A native of Riverbank, California, Will Perkins has been performing at Ragtime and Jazz Festivals since the age of fourteen. His love for the traditional American piano styles of Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, and Dick Wellstood have led him to opportunities to perform at music festivals around the United States and beyond. Will has been a featured performer at the Bohem Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival in Kecskemet, Hungary and at the Buenos Aires Ragtime Festival in Argentina. He has also been a featured performer at the West Coast Ragtime Festival, the International Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival and many other festivals around the United States.

Sam Post is an award-winning pianist and composer who delights audiences with signature mix of original compositions in a variety of styles along with classics. The Washington Post has praised his abilities at the piano ("confident, sensitive...a pianist with drive and intelligence"), the Bay Area Reporter lauded his chamber symphony ("Post has created a breathtaking musical joy ride"), and luminaries such as Renée Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma have commended his overall musicianship (calling him incredibly gifted and simply awesome). Sams latest solo album Dizzy Days made W. Royal Stokes notable jazz releases for 2017, and No Depression called it dazzling in its knife-sharp precision and riveting craftsmanship. Sam is music director of the Kassia Music Collective, and joined the faculty at Levine Music in 2013.

John Remmers is a retired professor of computer science with a serious addiction to playing ragtime piano. He can frequently be seen and heard at ragtime festivals around the US, at open piano after hours sessions and occasionally as a billed performer.

Dalton Ridenhour, a Missouri native, has been a student of the ragtime and stride piano tradition since the age of 8 and has been featured at many ragtime and early jazz festivals including The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, The West Coast Ragtime Festival, The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, and The Blind Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival. Dalton has degrees from the Berklee College of Music and The Eastman School of Music. Dalton performs locally and internationally with various groups including Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, The Lovestruck Balladeers, Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band, Naomi and Her Handsome Devils, Mike Davis and The New Wonders, Goodbye Picasso, and Mona's Hot Four.

John Thomas is a composer, pianist, singer, music director, actor, photographer, writer and event producer. He has played piano at Bostons Symphony Hall and with the Cape Symphony and performed with musicians in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Boston, New Orleans, New York City, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Mexico and Nepal. Johns music runs a wide gamut of styles: classical, New Orleans, Broadway, rhythm & blues, Balkan, Latin, original compositions and more. He portrayed Manny the pianist in the Maria Callas story Master Class; Cosme McMoon, Florence Foster Jenkins flamboyant pianist, in Souvenir. His band Johnny & The Washashores celebrates American and international dance music.