Ragtime Banjo to Make You Smile

Aaron Jonah Lewis on banjo and Dalton Ridenhour on piano performing Ragtime Oriole, by James Scott (composed 1911). Can you hear the oriole singing? Video was recorded and edited by Horatio Baltz during a Lovestruck Balladeers residency at ArtYard in Frenchtown, NJ, in April of 2019. Arrangement inspired by the playing of Fred Van Eps, one of the greatest banjo players who ever lived (and he also lived in New Jersey.) This piece was recorded later on in 2019 in Brooklyn and was included on the Lovestruck Balladeers’ full-length debut album, available at