ParagonThe Paragon Ragtime Orchestra is performing tonight at the Warren Cultural Center. The group is the world’s only year-round, professional ensemble specializing in recreating the sounds of early Broadway, silent cinema, and vintage ballroom dancing. They will present “Scott Joplin and the Kings of Ragtime,” a Premier Performance Series concert, which will include the orchestra providing the soundtrack to a silent film. Cultural Center Director Ken Sidey says the group is well suited to the historic theatre.

“This is the kind of music that would have been played here in the theater’s heyday. Along with the theatre’s surroundings, the show should feel like being transported to the 1920’s.”

Doors to the Norman Lear Theater open at 6:15pm for open seating and the performance begins at 7pm. Tickets are on sale now at Ed & Eva’s in Greenfield, by phone at 641-743-2566, or online at warrenculturalcenter.com.