Sparky and Rhonda Rucker deliver an uplifting presentation of toe-tapping music spiced with traditional storytelling, humor, and history. Their music includes a variety of Appalachian music, slave songs, spirituals, the black experience, and civil rights songs.

They accompany themselves with fingerstyle picking and blues guitar, harmonica, old-time banjo, piano, spoons, and bones. Their performance credits include the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as well as NPR’s On Point, Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and Morning Edition. Their music is also included on the Grammy-nominated anthology, Singing Through the Hard Times.