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Sep 2024
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National Piano Month 2024

BRICE FUQUA
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Music includes: Death Ray Boogie by Pete Johnson, When You're Smiling by Errol Garner, Drag Em by Mary Lou Williams, Taboo by Art Tatum, Bach's WTC Book I, No. 19 in A Major by Edwin Fischer and Almost Paradise by Roger Williams. 

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