For over 35 years, Choctaw Artist Jerry Perrine has specialized in the classic American piano styles of ragtime, early jazz, blues, boogie-woogie and southern gospel. As a teenager, Perrine taught himself how to play the ragtime piano music of Scott Joplin and others. As he studied the music and history of that piano style, he learned of other styles and pianists such as Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller and many others. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, he will perform an original ragtime suite for piano which celebrates the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, of which he is a member.