Link will be included in ticket purchase
CrossCurrents Presents our 50th Anniversary Concert Series
In support of Black Lives Matter
7pm- Sparky and Rhonda Rucker perform throughout the U.S. as well as overseas, singing songs and telling stories from the American folk tradition. Sparky Rucker has been performing for over forty years and 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 Rucker 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.
8pm – Gaye Todd Adegbalola, a Blues Music Award winner, is best known musically as a founding member of Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women (1984 – 2009). She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Blues Music Award (formerly the W.C. Handy Award – the Grammy of the blues industry). Also of importance, in 2011 Gaye was named an OUTstanding Virginian by Equality Virginia for championing GLBT equality. Further, in 2012, she received the Parents’ Choice Gold Award for Music for her children’s CD, “Blues in All Flavors”. In 2018, she won the Kristin Lems’ “Social Change Through Music” Award at the National Women’s Music Festival. The Jus’ Blues Foundation honored her with the 2019 KoKo Taylor “Queen of the Blues Award” for preserving traditional blues heritage. Aside from her honors in music, The Library of Virginia recognized her as one of the 2018 Virginia Women in History Honorees (along with Barbara Kingsolver, Rita Dove and others). As of 2020, she continues to serve as Vice President and works on the Political Action Committee of her local NAACP chapter.
Once you have purchased your ticket you will be given a link to the Zoom concert.
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CrossCurrents/Foolkiller stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in support of the struggle for fair and just treatment for our Black brothers and sisters and for all people of color.
Our vision of culture is to create a positive environment that values all human beings. We strongly support efforts aimed at creating more humane, just and fair governmental, cultural and societal institutions, including efforts aimed at addressing prevalent police oppression of people of color. We believe that the arts can and should play a role as our nation works to address this injustice.
#BlackLivesMatter