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Harry P. Guy Headstone

BY LARS BJORN

On a beautiful fall Saturday, October 11, the pioneering Detroit ragtime pianist and composer Harry P. Guy received a headstone for his grave at Elmwood Cemetery.

A processional led by the Gabriel Traditional New Orleans Jazz Band took us to the gravesite, where prayers and singing followed. The Rev. Canon Saundra D. Richardson officiated, Barbara and Ken Cox from the Societie of the Culturally Concerned and Nan Bostic from the Rag-Time Ephemeralist told us more about the significance of the former Minister of Music at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. Afterwards there was music and food at Bert's on Broadway, including ragtime piano by Mike Montgomery and Taslimah Bey.

It was a wonderfully paced day in memory and celebration of an overlooked music-maker, and I felt privileged to have been able to attend.

 
 

photographs by Lars Bjorn


 
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