The Red Clay Ramblers: North Carolina's Tony Award-winning String Band
"A great American band!" -- Sam Shepard
"Wonderful!" -- Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion
"The house band of North Carolina!" -- Martin Anderson, WNCW
"The Red Clay Ramblers gave a rollicking, refreshing, and raucous performance at the University of Richmond's Modlin Center for the Arts. The full house roared their approval, and demanded encores. It was one of the best shows of the season!" -Steve Allred, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Richmond
“A musical group whose eclectic repertory is that of a fantasy roadhouse band from a vanished rural America. Bluegrass, New Orleans, classical folk and gospel sounds emerge in nutty profusion from these talented instrumentalists and singers, whose music making is perfection.” -- The New York Times
"The Red Clay Ramblers were formed as a traditional string band in North Carolina in 1972 but soon brought a theatrical sensibility to their music-making, teaming up with Sam Shepard for his Off Broadway play 'A Lie of the Mind' in the eighties and scoring a couple of his films. The Ramblers earned a special Tony in the nineties for their collaboration with Bill Irwin and David Shiner on 'Fool Moon,' and continue to invest their country with a little neon." -- The New Yorker
"PlayMakers Repertory Company has a hit with 'Big River,' the Tony Award-winning musical based on Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn.' Performances have been added and are selling out. The show's built-in appeal stems from the universal popularity of Twain's comically observant novel and the irresistible twang of Roger Miller's songs. With this production's inclusion of the beloved Red Clay Ramblers, and a cast and crew of PlayMakers' best, anticipation was already high. Happily, the production fulfills its promise." -- The News & Observer
