Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...

Subject: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 05:11 PM

Well, well, well...

Outta be an interestin' 4 days as Sparky, Rhonda and Jamie Rucker will be staying with us from the 28th to the 31st of this month and perform twice here in Luray, Va...

Think I'm gonna get wored out...

B~

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 05:26 PM

Wored out but happy, I'm sure.

I wish I could be there.

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: maeve
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 05:31 PM

I met Sparky when I worked at The Folkway Coffeehouse in Peterborough, New Hampshire years ago!

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 08:09 PM

Yeah, I've known Sparky for4 a long, long time an' when I organized the concert series in Luray thought it would be cool to have him and Rhonda do a concert... Ends up he'll be doing two...

I donno... Sparky and I are bad influences on each other even if we do have a lot of fun...

An', of course, seein' as I'm openin' for hi at one of the two performances, he'll prolly take me aside afterwards and give me the usual "I didn't teach that stuff to you that way"...lol...

B~

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Art Thieme
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 08:22 PM

Sparky's doin' of DELIA is the best; it's a long one, but I always wish there was more. Give him a hug for me. --- Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 08:35 PM

Yeah, art, will do... Hope he don't take it wrong... You know how Sparky is???

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 11:18 PM

We have Sparky & Rhonda booked at The Borderline for next year.
Saturday night, November 15th 2009 to be exact.

SOL

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Amos
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 12:43 AM

Bobert:

You let them know you're coming out of peeneumonia, and take it slow, lad. I mean it.


A

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: John Minear
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 07:04 AM

Bobert, when and where are the concerts there at Luray? Can you give us over the mountain folks some details? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 07:13 AM

I wish he'd come and visit the UK again some time. I saw him at a festival in Scotland some years ago. Absolute magic.

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 07:54 AM

Wish I could come! I'm a BIG FAT fan! His singing/songs was one of the influences that set me on my folk- (and folky-) lovin' path.

Maybe they'll be making a stop in NC?!

Enjoy!

Dani

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 08:29 AM

Details:

***Friday, August 29, Ruffner Plaza, 7:00-9:00pm (Directions: 1 block west of the intersection of Rts. 340 and 211 in park just below the bridge crossing the Hawksbill Creek...)

***Saturday, August 30, Page County Farmers Market 11:00 to Noon, with yer's truley (me) opening at 10:00 am (Directions: 1 Block north of the intersection of Rts. 340 and 211 in the parking lot of the old Ford dealership... Can't miss it...)

BTW, if you Google Sparky you'll find his website with his schedule for the next year and may find he'll be within driving distance...

BTW, Part B: I learned to play blues from Sparky a long time ago and we've remained friends in spite of it all these years...lol...

B~

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 08:39 AM

His website is at http://www.sparkyandrhonda.com/ . Their tour itinerary is on their up to November 2009 and there's no mention of anything in Britain. But I'll keep looking.

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 09:57 AM

He's takin' English lessons now, Fred, so maybe next yer fir Britain... lol...

(Oh Mah Gawd, Boberdz!!! Four days of Sparky??? Ya' got bail money, son???...)

B;~)

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 10:02 AM

I think it was at the big Winfield, Kansas festival in the 1970s that I first met and heard Mr. Rucker. He was a duo with John Davis then. Sparky is a musical survivor, an entertainer extraordinaire, and a keeper of the flame. A brilliant friend of folklore and the folk songs of his people -- and beyond. I mean this with sincerity, and with great respect. (And you can quote me!)

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 03:52 PM

Sigh. No where near close enough.

In any case, be sure to invite him to the mudcat; he'd have lots to offer!

Dani

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Aug 08 - 07:51 PM

Sparky stays purdy booked up these days sop I don't reckon he's lookin' for more places to play music and tell his stories but I'll tell him to stop in here if he ever gets bored, or time, or both...

B~

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Aug 08 - 03:23 AM

Sparky and Rhonda were at the Oz national folk festival a year or 2 ago....or maybe 3....time flies. I enjoyed them! Bobster, can you please say g'day from an Ozzie fan?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Aug 08 - 07:41 AM

Will do, JennieG... Might of fact, I might just let Sparky read this thread so keep an eye on in 'bout the time he gets here 'cause he may get a chance to stop in and say "Hey" his ownself...

B~