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Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...

20 Aug 08 - 05:11 PM (#2418934)
Subject: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert

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~


20 Aug 08 - 05:26 PM (#2418949)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: GUEST,leeneia

Wored out but happy, I'm sure.

I wish I could be there.


20 Aug 08 - 05:31 PM (#2418955)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: maeve

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


20 Aug 08 - 08:09 PM (#2419091)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert

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~


20 Aug 08 - 08:22 PM (#2419101)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Art Thieme

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


20 Aug 08 - 08:35 PM (#2419111)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert

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


20 Aug 08 - 11:18 PM (#2419165)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Rabbi-Sol

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

SOL


21 Aug 08 - 12:43 AM (#2419193)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Amos

Bobert:

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


A


21 Aug 08 - 07:04 AM (#2419291)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: John Minear

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


21 Aug 08 - 07:13 AM (#2419292)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Fred McCormick

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.


21 Aug 08 - 07:54 AM (#2419311)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: GUEST,Dani

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


21 Aug 08 - 08:29 AM (#2419324)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert

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~


21 Aug 08 - 08:39 AM (#2419327)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Fred McCormick

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.


21 Aug 08 - 09:57 AM (#2419375)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert

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;~)


21 Aug 08 - 10:02 AM (#2419379)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Art Thieme

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


21 Aug 08 - 03:52 PM (#2419667)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: GUEST,Dani

Sigh. No where near close enough.

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

Dani


21 Aug 08 - 07:51 PM (#2419819)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert

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~


22 Aug 08 - 03:23 AM (#2419920)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: JennieG

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


22 Aug 08 - 07:41 AM (#2419987)
Subject: RE: Sparky Rucker Comin' to Visist...
From: Bobert

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~