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Sparky & Rhonda Rucker Plus Gaye Adegbalola
CrossCurrents Presents our 50th Anniversary Concert Series
In support of Black Lives Matter
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 for 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 a musician, children's author, storyteller, and songwriter. Her blues-style harmonica, piano, old-time banjo, and bones add musical versatility to their performances.
https://sparkyandrhonda.com/home
Gaye Todd Adegbalola, a Blues Music Award winner, is best known musically as a founding member of Saffire The Uppity Blues Women (1984 2009). She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Blues Music Award (formerly the W.C. Handy Award the Grammy of the blues industry). Also of importance, in 2011 Gaye was named an OUTstanding Virginian by Equality Virginia for championing GLBT equality. Further, in 2012, she received the Parents Choice Gold Award for Music for her childrens CD, Blues in All Flavors. In 2018, she won the Kristin Lems Social Change Through Music Award at the National Womens Music Festival. The Jus Blues Foundation honored her with the 2019 KoKo Taylor Queen of the Blues Award for preserving traditional blues heritage. Aside from her honors in music, The Library of Virginia recognized her as one of the 2018 Virginia Women in History Honorees (along with Barbara Kingsolver, Rita Dove and others). As of 2020, she continues to serve as Vice President and works on the Political Action Committee of her local NAACP chapter. https://adegbalola.com/
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Kansas City, MO
United States
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