The Schweinfurth Art Center welcomes Sparky & Rhonda Rucker who will perform on Sunday, March 15, 2009, 2pm. Admission is $3 for adults. Art Center members and students are free.
 Sparky & Rhonda Rucker’s concert performance is a humor-filled journey through four hundred years of African-American cultural and folk history. It includes old-time blues, Appalachian music, slave songs, Civil War music, spirituals, work songs, ballads, Civil Rights music and Spark Rucker’s own original compositions.
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker perform throughout the U.S. as well as overseas, singing songs and telling stories from the American folk tradition. Sparky Rucker has been performing over forty years and is internationally recognized as a leading folklorist, musician, historian, storyteller, and author. He accompanies himself with fingerstyle picking and bottleneck blues guitar, banjo, and spoons. Rhonda Rucker is an accomplished harmonica, piano, banjo, and bones player, and also adds vocal harmonies to their songs
For more information on Sparky & Rhonda Rucker go to www.sparkyandrhonda.com.
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