Sparky and Rhonda Rucker deliver an uplifting online concert of toe-tapping songs spiced with humor, history and tall tales. Enjoy a variety of old-time blues, Appalachian music, spirituals and original tunes accompanied with fingerstyle picking, bottleneck blues guitar, banjo, harmonica, piano, spoons, and bones. Adults and teens. Please register to get a link for this live concert via Zoom.
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker deliver an uplifting online concert of toe-tapping songs spiced with humor, history, and tall tales. Enjoy a variety of old-time blues, Appalachian music, songs of enslaved people and spirituals as well as some original tunes, as they accompany themselves with fingerstyle picking and bottleneck blues guitar, old-time banjo, blues harmonica, piano, 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. Please register to get a link for this live concert via Zoom.
Please note that this program is taking place online or via broadcast rather than at a physical library branch. See the event description for details on how to watch or listen.
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