The Vineyard Haven Library is hosting slave songs and
spirituals with Sparky and Rhonda Rucker on Sunday, April 22nd at 2
pm
"Rhonda and Sparky will sing slave songs and spirituals and
while accompanying themselves with finger style picking and bottleneck blues
guitar, harmonica, old-time banjo, piano, spoons, and bones. They will weave American history, especially
African-American history, including slavery, the Underground Railroad and the
Civil War into their, traditional storytelling, and humor into their concert.
They have been featured tellers at the International Storytelling Center and
Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and on NPR's On Point."
