Come on by and tap your toes to The Big Apple’s finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists around! Featuring special events and performances by distinguished musicians sprinkled throughout the schedule.

Frank Owens

Frank Owens – Pianist, Arranger, Musical Director, Producer & Composer
His career spans across genres of the music spectrum. A true professional and quite often dubbed as “the perfectionist,” Frank Owens is an authority on Erroll Garner, and the late Eubie Blake, with whom he briefly studied. His first gig included playing piano for Amateur Night at the Apollo, in Harlem. If Frank Owens played for you as a singer in those days, you were sure to win that night…or at the very least, you would be asked to return the following week. Eventually, in the 90s, Frank served as Musical Director for the televised version of “Showtime at the Apollo.” A virtuoso pianist, trained in the European classics, he can shift gears at a moment’s notice to paint a Brazilian or Japanese landscape.