Sparky and Rhonda Rucker deliver an uplifting concert of toe-tapping songs spiced with humor, history and tall tales. Enjoy a variety of spirituals, ballads, Civil War music and railroad songs plus some original tunes, as they accompany themselves with blues guitar, old-time banjo, harmonica, spoons and bones. Adults and teens.
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker deliver an uplifting concert of toe-tapping songs spiced with humor, history and tall tales. Enjoy a variety of spirituals, ballads, Civil War music and railroad songs plus some original tunes, as they accompany themselves with blues guitar, old-time banjo, harmonica, spoons and bones.
Sparky and Rhonda have performed at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as well as NPR's "On Point," "Prairie Home Companion," "Mountain Stage" and "Morning Edition." Their recording "Treasures & Tears" was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award, and their music is also included on the Grammy-nominated anthology "Singing Through the Hard Times." The duo’s most recent recording is "Down by the Riverside."
Adults and teens