Kansas
BY ALEXIS TARRAZI – Straus News
NEWTON — Despite having to give up Saturday morning cartoons, David Ragsdale is now grateful his mother forced him to play the violin as a child. Ragsdale is now touring with Kansas as their violinist along with singing and playing the guitar. He appeared this past weekend with the group at Newton Theater in Newton.
“My mom forced (the violin) on me,” Ragsdale recalled. “I didn’t like playing the violin until I was 20. I had to give up Mighty Mouse to play the violin and there was no DVR back then.”
His first song he learned on the violin was most likely “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” Ragsdale said.
Alexis Tarrazi 