Sparky & Rhonda Rucker to perform at Open Book Coffeehouse

The Open Book Coffeehouse continues its seventh season on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 PM, with folk singers Sparky and Rhonda Rucker. The Open Book Coffeehouse is located in the Community Room of the Canton Public Library, 786 Washington Street, Canton, MA.

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker have been famous in the folk music circuit for decades as some of the finest purveyors of traditional folk songs, ballads and blues. Sparky's driving blues guitar, including great slide guitar playing, and his voice, at times growling and other times soft and poignant, has been beautifully augmented by Rhonda's excellent singing and blues harp. Well-known for their interpretations of blues classics, they have also been recognized as all-around "songsters," covering a lot of ground with traditional and old time songs.

Sparky and Rhonda weave music, humor, tall tales, and history into an uplifting presentation ranging from poignant stories of slavery and war to amusing renditions of Brer Rabbit tales and commentaries on current events. Their music includes a variety of old-time blues, slave songs, Appalachian music, spirituals, ballads, work songs, Civil War music, cowboy music, railroad songs, and a few of their own original compositions. Sparky and Rhonda have been wowing audiences for over forty years. They have performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as well as NPR's On Point, Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and Morning Edition.