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Sparky & Rhonda Rucker Musical Performance
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker’s music includes old-time blues, Appalachian music, slave songs, spirituals, and originals, and they accompany themselves with fingerstyle picking and bottleneck blues guitar, old-time banjo, blues harmonica, piano, spoons, and bones. They have long been ambassadors of cultural heritage, accompanying themselves with bottleneck slide guitar, old-time banjo, harmonica, piano, spoons, and bones. Sparky was recently honored with a 2025 Tennessee Governor’s Folklife Heritage Award. Over fifty years of performing, they 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. Learn more on their website at sparkyandrhonda.com. For tickets, visit laureltheater.org
“Sparky Rucker is unique! He’ll make you glad to be alive and struggling.” ~PETE SEEGER
“It’s an absolute must to see Sparky in concert!” ~U. UTAH PHILLIPS
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3453027-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3453027-2
