SPARKY & RONDA RUCKER are coming April 4th!
Breaking News Concert Change!
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025 —SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, on tour from Tennessee, have re-scheduled a Grassroots Concerts at the Live Well Nightclub and Coffee Bar in the Journey Church, Nisswa, to 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 4.
Admission is $15 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12 with
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025 —SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, on tour from Tennessee, have re-scheduled a Grassroots Concerts at the Live Well Nightclub and Coffee Bar in the Journey Church, Nisswa, to 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 4.
Admission is $15 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12 with listening attention, when accompanied by an adult.
Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 6:30 in the Journey Church, 5459 Lakers Lane (next to the school in Nisswa).
The Ruckers perform throughout the U.S. as well as overseas, singing songs and telling stories from the American folk tradition.
Sparky 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 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.
Sparky and Rhonda take audiences on an educational and emotional journey that ranges from poignant stories of slavery and war to an amusing rendition of a Brer Rabbit tale or their witty commentaries on current events. Their music includes a variety of old-time blues, slave songs, Appalachian music, spirituals, ballads, work songs, Civil War music, railroad songs, and a few of their own original compositions.
Sparky and Rhonda have appeared 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.
The Ruckers have been featured tellers at the International Storytelling Center and Festival. Sparky is a natural storyteller, having grown up hearing his father, uncles, and other family members endlessly telling tales.
Sparky and Rhonda weave their music into captivating stories that the history books don’t always tell.
MorningBird
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
Unfortunately MORNING BIRD are not able to perform on Friday, April 4.
Instead SPARKY AND RHONDA RUCKER will perform at 7:30 p.m., FRIDAY APRIL 4, 2025.
Eric Koskinen
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
Eric Koskinen
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025—ERIK KOSKINEN www.erikkoskinen.com
Erik Koskinen is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. Stylistically he is on his own while heavily influenced by American roots music.
Koskinen has reverently entered the anthology of uniquely crafted wry son
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025—ERIK KOSKINEN www.erikkoskinen.com
Erik Koskinen is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. Stylistically he is on his own while heavily influenced by American roots music.
Koskinen has reverently entered the anthology of uniquely crafted wry songs with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ry Cooder while speaking as plainly as your neighbor.
Erik is “as dazzling a guitarist as he is an evocative storytelling songwriter.”
—Minneapolis Star-Tribune