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 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, 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